Books by Eric Berkowitz and Complete Book Reviews

Sex and Punishment: Four Thousand Years of Judging Desire
Sex and Punishment: Four Thousand Years of Judging Desire
Eric Berkowitz. Counterpoint, $26 (446p) ISBN 978-1-58243-796-5
Berkowitz, a lawyer-journalist, begins his historical tour of “sex and punishment” with the 4,000-year-old murder of a priest in Mesopotamia—his wife, suspected of adultery, was executed for the homicide. The book ends with Oscar Wilde’s well-chronic
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The Boundaries of Desire: A Century of Bad Laws
The Boundaries of Desire: A Century of Bad Laws, Good Sex, and Changing Identities
Eric Berkowitz. Counterpoint, $28 (480p) ISBN 978-1-61902-529-5
Berkowitz, a lawyer with experience in intellectual property, First Amendment, and business litigation, presents an immersive, sometimes shocking history of changing sexual mores, and the laws pertaining to them, in the U.S. He covers topics...
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Dangerous Ideas: A Brief History of Censorship in the West
Dangerous Ideas: A Brief History of Censorship in the West, from the Ancients to Fake News
Eric Berkowitz. Beacon, $29.95 (312p) ISBN 978-0-8070-3624-2
Journalist Berkowitz (Sex and Punishment) examines how censorship backfires in this thought-provoking account. He notes that although the ancient Romans tried to eradicate the memory of “egregious” wrongdoers such as Brutus and Nero by mutilating...
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