Название: The Origins of Sex: A History of the First Sexual RevolutionАвтор: Faramerz Dabhoiwala
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 2012
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 513
Размер: 12,34 Мб
Язык: английский
A man admits that, when drunk, he tried to have sex with an eighteen-year-old girl; she is arrested and denies they had intercourse, but finally begs God's forgiveness. Then she is publicly hanged alongside her attacker. These events took place in 1644, in Boston, where today they would be viewed with horror. How--and when--did such a complete transformation of our culture's attitudes toward sex occur?