{"product_id":"sex-and-punishment-by-eric-berkowitz-9781908906106","title":"Sex and Punishment","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSex and Punishment\u003c\/em\u003e tells the story of the struggle throughout millennia to regulate the most powerful engine of human behaviour: sex.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\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 \u003cem\u003eSex and Punishment\u003c\/em\u003e 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\n\n\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\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46849957724396,"sku":"9781908906106","price":32.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/17901133482867.jpg?v=1759067188","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/sex-and-punishment-by-eric-berkowitz-9781908906106","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}