Accolades

"Sex and Punishment is very interesting, very enlightening, very well written, and very timely; and it performs an important service to a nonspecialist audience."

• Richard A. Posner

  professor, University of Chicago Law School; judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit; author of Sex and Reason and America's Sex Laws

"Eric Berkowitz has done an excellent job of showing just how far from certain any of us should be that we really know what is 'normal' or 'ethical' when it comes to sex. Sex and Punishment is built on solid scholarship and spiced with plenty of sordid details that will make you the hit of any cocktail party." 

• Christopher Ryan, Ph.D.

  co-author of Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality

"In Sex and Punishment, Eric Berkowitz leads us through the inventive and ultimately futile ways that mankind has tried to tame its most troublesome pleasure. His comprehensive tour is sometimes funny, more often scary but always entertaining."

• A. J. Langguth

  prize-winning journalist and author of Patriots: The Men Who Started the American Revolution