Sex and Punishment
Four Thousand Years of Judging Desire
by Eric Berkowitz
456 pages· ISBN 9781582437965
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Describes sex laws through the ages, from ancient Mesopotamia's impalement of adulterers to Oscar Wilde's 1895 incarceration for "gross indecency," and discusses royal mistresses, gay charioteers, and medieval transvestites along the way.
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