Legally Speaking
Sep. 1, 2012
Sex and Punishment
A conversation with attorney and author Eric Berkowitz on the history of judging desire.
For prosecutors as well as for priests, the ways we have sex have long been a subject of serious concern. So serious, in fact, that whenever community standards are breached, the response is often repression, if not severe punishment. Eric Berkowitz is an attorney in San Francisco who has studied this phenomenon. His new book is called Sex and Punishment: Four Thousand Years of Judging Desire (Counterpoint, 2012). In May, Berkowitz spoke with California Lawyer editor Mart...
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