Four Thousand Years of Judging Desire
by
Eric Berkowitz
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
From Mesopotamian adultery to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde: an “enormously informative and entertaining” history of Western sex laws (The Boston Globe).
The “raging frenzy” of the sex drive, to use Plato’s phrase, has always defied control. That’s not to say that the Sumerians,...