Eric Berkowitz Traces the History of Sex Law for Huffington Post

Our client Eric Berkowitz, a lawyer, journalist, and author of Sex and Punishment: Four Thousand Years of Judging Desire, wrote a guest column for the Huffington Post pulling directly from his book's research.

The piece argues that no society in recorded history has ever managed to fully contain sexual desire, only to regulate it, often brutally. Berkowitz walks through examples ranging from the impalement of unfaithful wives in ancient Mesopotamia to the forced sterilization of masturbators in the twentieth century United States, framing the entire sweep as evidence that the impulse to punish desire is as old as the impulse itself. It is the same sharp, well-researched voice that runs through the book, condensed into a single column built to make readers want the rest.

Placing an author's own writing in a major outlet is one of the strongest tools in our press campaigns, since it puts the author's voice directly in front of readers instead of relying on a third party to summarize the work.

Read the full column on HuffingtonPost.com.

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