{"product_id":"9781908906106","title":"Sex and Punishment","description":"Author: Eric Berkowitz\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781908906106\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Saqi Books\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 02 Jul 2013\u003cbr\u003ePages: 368\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSex and Punishment tells the story of the struggle throughout millennia to regulate the most powerful engine of human behaviour: sex.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the savage impalement of an Ancient Mesopotamian adulteress to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde for 'gross indecency' in 1895, Eric Berkowitz evokes the entire sweep of Western sex law. The cast of Sex and Punishment is as varied as the forms taken by human desire itself: royal mistresses, gay charioteers, medieval transvestites, lonely goat-lovers, prostitutes of all stripes and London rent boys. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach of them had forbidden sex, and each was judged  and justice, as Berkowitz shows  rarely had anything to do with it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46857130836126,"sku":"ADS-9781908906106","price":27.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781908906106.jpg?v=1779155553","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781908906106","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}