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Taming Lust

Author : Doron S. Ben-Atar
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812209257
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Taming Lust written by Doron S. Ben-Atar and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2014-01-06 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1796, as revolutionary fervor waned and the Age of Reason took hold, an eighty-five-year-old Massachusetts doctor was convicted of bestiality and sentenced to hang. Three years later and seventy miles away, an eighty-three-year-old Connecticut farmer was convicted of the same crime and sentenced to the same punishment. Prior to these criminal trials, neither Massachusetts nor Connecticut had executed anyone for bestiality in over a century. Though there are no overt connections between the two episodes, the similarities of their particulars are strange and striking. Historians Doron S. Ben-Atar and Richard D. Brown delve into the specifics to determine what larger social, political, or religious forces could have compelled New England courts to condemn two octogenarians for sexual misbehavior typically associated with much younger men. The stories of John Farrell and Gideon Washburn are less about the two old men than New England officials who, riding the rough waves of modernity, returned to the severity of their ancestors. The political upheaval of the Revolution and the new republic created new kinds of cultural experience—both exciting and frightening—at a moment when New England farmers and village elites were contesting long-standing assumptions about divine creation and the social order. Ben-Atar and Brown offer a rare and vivid perspective on anxieties about sexual and social deviance in the early republic.

Loving Animals

Author : Joanna Bourke
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1789143098
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book Loving Animals written by Joanna Bourke and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2020-11-05 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sex with animals is one of the last taboos but, for a practice that is generally regarded as abhorrent, it is remarkable how many books, films, plays, paintings, and photographs depict the subject. So, what does loving animals mean? In this book the renowned historian Joanna Bourke explores the modern history of sex between humans and animals. Bourke looks at the changing meanings of “bestiality” and “zoophilia,” assesses the psychiatric and sexual aspects, and she concludes by delineating an ethics of animal loving.

Sex and the Constitution: Sex, Religion, and Law from America's Origins to the Twenty-First Century

Author : Geoffrey R. Stone
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1631493655
Total Pages : 704 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book Sex and the Constitution: Sex, Religion, and Law from America's Origins to the Twenty-First Century written by Geoffrey R. Stone and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Selection A “volume of lasting significance” that illuminates how the clash between sex and religion has defined our nation’s history (Lee C. Bollinger, president, Columbia University). Lauded for “bringing a bracing and much-needed dose of reality about the Founders’ views of sexuality” (New York Review of Books), Geoffrey R. Stone’s Sex and the Constitution traces the evolution of legal and moral codes that have legislated sexual behavior from America’s earliest days to today’s fractious political climate. This “fascinating and maddening” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) narrative shows how agitators, moralists, and, especially, the justices of the Supreme Court have navigated issues as divisive as abortion, homosexuality, pornography, and contraception. Overturning a raft of contemporary shibboleths, Stone reveals that at the time the Constitution was adopted there were no laws against obscenity or abortion before the midpoint of pregnancy. A pageant of historical characters, including Voltaire, Thomas Jefferson, Anthony Comstock, Margaret Sanger, and Justice Anthony Kennedy, enliven this “commanding synthesis of scholarship” (Publishers Weekly) that dramatically reveals how our laws about sex, religion, and morality reflect the cultural schisms that have cleaved our nation from its founding.

Sins against Nature

Author : Zeb Tortorici
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822371626
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Sins against Nature written by Zeb Tortorici and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Sins against Nature Zeb Tortorici explores the prosecution of sex acts in colonial New Spain (present-day Mexico, Guatemala, the US Southwest, and the Philippines) to examine the multiple ways bodies and desires come to be textually recorded and archived. Drawing on the records from over three hundred criminal and Inquisition cases between 1530 and 1821, Tortorici shows how the secular and ecclesiastical courts deployed the term contra natura—against nature—to try those accused of sodomy, bestiality, masturbation, erotic religious visions, priestly solicitation of sex during confession, and other forms of "unnatural" sex. Archival traces of the visceral reactions of witnesses, the accused, colonial authorities, notaries, translators, and others in these records demonstrate the primacy of affect and its importance to the Spanish documentation and regulation of these sins against nature. In foregrounding the logic that dictated which crimes were recorded and how they are mediated through the colonial archive, Tortorici recasts Iberian Atlantic history through the prism of the unnatural while showing how archives destabilize the bodies, desires, and social categories on which the history of sexuality is based.

The One-Minute Aquinas

Author : Kevin Vost
Publisher : Sophia Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1622821599
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (228 download)

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Download or read book The One-Minute Aquinas written by Kevin Vost and published by Sophia Institute Press. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 25 popes consider St. Thomas Aquinas the Church's preeminent theologian because he saw truths about God, our Faith, and the Christian life which had never been seen before. But do you have time to read the 3,000 pages in his Summa Theologica? Do you struggle to understand the abstract theological terms he uses in On Being and Essence? Perhaps you, like so many of us, desire to be taught by such a great philosopher as Aquinas, but feel he is well beyond your reach. Not anymore. In The One-Minute Aquinas, veteran Catholic author Dr. Kevin Vost provides you with simple, readable explanations of St. Thomas's life-giving wisdom. In this book's lucid pages, you'll read small, digestible portions of St. Thomas's answers to questions such as... Why do souls need the sacraments? Why didn't Jesus write the Bible himself? What are simple proofs of God's existence? What is heaven, and what

The Forbidden Body

Author : Douglas E. Cowan
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479803103
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book The Forbidden Body written by Douglas E. Cowan and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Throughout history, the religious imagination has attempted to control nothing so much as our bodies: what they are and what they mean; what we do with them, with whom, and under what circumstances; how they may be displayed-or, more commonly, how they must be hidden. Religious belief and mandate affect how our bodies are used in ritual practice, as well as how we use them to identify and marginalize threatening religious Others. This book examines how horror culture treats religious bodies that have stepped (or been pushed) out of their 'proper' place. Unlike most books on religion and horror, This book explores the dark spaces where sex, sexual representation, and the sexual body come together with religious belief and scary stories. Because these intersections of sex, horror, and the religious imagination force us to question the nature of consensus reality, supernatural horror, especially as it concerns the body, often shows us the religious imagination at work in real time. It is important to note that the discussion in this book is not limited either to horror cinema or to popular fiction, but considers a wide range of material, including literary horror, weird fiction, graphic storytelling, visual arts, participative culture, and aspects of real-world religious fear. It is less concerned with horror as a genre (which is mainly a function of marketing) and more with the horror mode, a way of storytelling that finds expression across a number of genres, a variety of media, and even blurs the boundary between fiction and non-fiction. This expanded focus not only deepens the pool of potential examples, but invites a much broader readership in for a swim"--

Criminalizing Sex

Author : Stuart P. Green
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197507492
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book Criminalizing Sex written by Stuart P. Green and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-15 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting in the latter part of the 20th century, the law of sexual offenses, especially in the West, began to reflect a striking divergence. On the one hand, the law became significantly more punitive in its approach to sexual conduct that is nonconsensual, as evidenced by a major expansion in the definition of rape and sexual assault, and the creation of new offenses like sex trafficking, child grooming, and revenge porn. On the other hand, it became markedly more permissive in how it dealt with conduct that is consensual, a trend that can be seen, for example, in the legalization or decriminalization of sodomy, adultery, and adult pornography. This book explores the conceptual and normative implications of this divergence. At the heart of the book is a consideration of a deeply contested question: How should a liberal system of criminal law adequately protect individuals in their right not to be subjected to sexual contact against their will, while also safeguarding their right to engage in (private consensual) sexual conduct in which they do wish to participate? The book develops a framework for harmonizing these goals in the context of a wide range of nonconsensual, consensual, and aconsensual sexual offenses (hence, the "unified" nature of the theory) -- including rape and sexual assault in a variety of forms, sexual harassment, voyeurism, indecent exposure, incest, sadomasochistic assault, prostitution, bestiality, and necrophilia. Intellectually rigorous, fair-minded, and deeply humane, Criminalizing Sex offers a fascinating discussion of a wide range of moral and legal puzzles, arising out of real-world cases of alleged sexual misconduct - a discussion that is all the more urgent in the age of #MeToo.

The Mahabharata: A Modern Retelling

Author : Erin Bernstein
Publisher : BookRix
ISBN 13 : 3755406608
Total Pages : 1857 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (554 download)

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Download or read book The Mahabharata: A Modern Retelling written by Erin Bernstein and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2022-01-31 with total page 1857 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please take a moment to enjoy this book, a volume the original editors feel is an interpolation since the story pauses for a time to catch its breath. The original editor thought the "pale men of White Island" were Romans. Were they really that pasty? - Author

A Student's Pastime

Author : Walter William Skeat
Publisher : Oxford, Clarendon P
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book A Student's Pastime written by Walter William Skeat and published by Oxford, Clarendon P. This book was released on 1896 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Liberty's Prisoners

Author : Jen Manion
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812247574
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Liberty's Prisoners written by Jen Manion and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-10-29 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liberty's Prisoners examines how changing attitudes about work, freedom, property, and family shaped the creation of the penitentiary system in the United States. The first penitentiary was founded in Philadelphia in 1790, a period of great optimism and turmoil in the Revolution's wake. Those who were previously dependents with no legal standing—women, enslaved people, and indentured servants—increasingly claimed their own right to life, liberty, and happiness. A diverse cast of women and men, including immigrants, African Americans, and the Irish and Anglo-American poor, struggled to make a living. Vagrancy laws were used to crack down on those who visibly challenged longstanding social hierarchies while criminal convictions carried severe sentences for even the most trivial property crimes. The penitentiary was designed to reestablish order, both behind its walls and in society at large, but the promise of reformative incarceration failed from its earliest years. Within this system, women served a vital function, and Liberty's Prisoners is the first book to bring to life the e xperience of African American, immigrant, and poor white women imprisoned in early America. Always a minority of prisoners, women provided domestic labor within the institution and served as model inmates, more likely to submit to the authority of guards, inspectors, and reformers. White men, the primary targets of reformative incarceration, challenged authorities at every turn while African American men were increasingly segregated and denied access to reform. Liberty's Prisoners chronicles how the penitentiary, though initially designed as an alternative to corporal punishment for the most egregious of offenders, quickly became a repository for those who attempted to lay claim to the new nation's promise of liberty.

Social Control of Sex Offenders

Author : D. Richard Laws
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113739126X
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Social Control of Sex Offenders written by D. Richard Laws and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-05-11 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book surveys the history, current status, and critical issues regarding the various mechanisms designed to control sex offenders. It shows that the social problem of sex offending is not apparently resolvable by any of the means currently employed. A large array of procedures are used in the attempt to control the difficult population of sex offenders, including: imprisonment, institutional and community treatment, community monitoring by probation and parole, electronic monitoring, registration as a sex offender, community notification of an offender’s status, strict limits on behavioral movement in the community, and residence restrictions. However, these constraints on behavior are almost completely the result of public outrage regarding sensational sex crimes, overreaction of media coverage that produce inaccurate statements of potential community risk, and the efforts of the legal profession and politicians to quell this anger and foreboding by enacting legislation that supposedly confronts the risk. This book demonstrates that we have constructed a massive edifice of community control that is socially and politically driven and which has largely failed to contain sex crime.

Select Poetry

Author : Edward Farr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Select Poetry written by Edward Farr and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Taming a Heartbreaker

Author : Brenda Jackson
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 0369748476
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (697 download)

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Download or read book Taming a Heartbreaker written by Brenda Jackson and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2024-05-21 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taming a Heartbreaker by New York Times bestselling author Brenda Jackson—Part of the bestselling Westmoreland Legacy series! A steamy opposites-attract story about a playboy CEO determined never to settle down and a hopeless romantic who knows it just takes the right person to reform a rake. He’s closed off to love. She’s set on taming his wild ways. Let the sparks fly! Redford St. James is having too much fun to settle down with just one woman. Until a Westmoreland family wedding reunites him with Carmen Golan. He can’t get Carmen—gorgeous, sweet and a hopeless romantic—out of his mind. Even though she’s outright said he’s husband material! Him! And she believes any heartbreaker can be tamed—by the right person. Well, it’s his duty to set her straight! But an intimate conversation becomes an intimate evening and a night that makes them wonder who’s taming whom. And that night could have consequences in nine short months… FREE BONUS STORY INCLUDED! A Little Bit of Love by Synithia Williams Sheri “Li’l Bit” Thomas will do anything to help revitalize the community she loves—even work with Lieutenant Deandre King, the cop who once arrested her after a stupid breakup stunt. But neither counts on the attraction simmering between them—or the potential problems with Deandre’s teen son. Is Sheri the mom—and wife—they never knew they needed? Don’t miss the complete Harlequin 75th Anniversary Collection: Taming a Heartbreaker by Brenda Jackson No Turning Back by Lindsay McKenna Rancher’s Law by Diana Palmer Save Me by Sharon Sala A Murderer Among Us by Heather Graham A Beach House Beginning by RaeAnne Thayne Renegade Wife by B.J. Daniels Tying the Knot by Brenda Novak

Sexual Regulation and the Law, A Canadian Perspective

Author : Richard Jochelson
Publisher : Demeter Press
ISBN 13 : 1772582611
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Sexual Regulation and the Law, A Canadian Perspective written by Richard Jochelson and published by Demeter Press. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does Canada need any more collections about legal regulation of sex and sexuality? Volumes exist dealing with sex work and pornographies. Certainly, volumes abound dealing with emerging sexualities in Canada and new sexual freedoms. This book seeks to do more than tell a story of broad generalities about the law. It forges the links between the history of law and modern iterations of judgments pertaining to that law. Hence the uncomfortable line between Victorian morality (often) and modern regulation, is thematically explored through the book. More modern iterations of sexual regulation in Canada are being deployed and, in this book, the authors explore the interplay between emerging digital technologies and legal regulation. Newer laws in Canada have been drafted to recognize that sexual expression can be a means of violence inherently, and thus an exploration of modern sexual digital expression and its emerging jurisprudence represent a new frontier in the regulation of sex and sexuality in Canada. We explore how legal regulation has responded to these new crimes.

Strength for the Broken Places

Author : Rev. Dr. James A. Harnish
Publisher : Abingdon Press
ISBN 13 : 1426729421
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Strength for the Broken Places written by Rev. Dr. James A. Harnish and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James A. Harnish, from the Introduction: “I’m broken. So are you. We’re all broken people who live in a broken world. The critical question is, how do we find strength to put broken things back together again? This book is an invitation to touch the scars that mark the broken places in our lives, in the same way the risen Christ invited a doubting disciple to touch the nail scars in his hands. It is a challenge to explore some of the dark places in our human experience, to uncover the sinister power of sin, and to experience the way the grace of God meets us in our broken places to bring new life.”

Lust on Trial

Author : Amy Werbel
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 023154703X
Total Pages : 589 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Lust on Trial written by Amy Werbel and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 589 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthony Comstock was America’s first professional censor. From 1873 to 1915, as Secretary of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, Comstock led a crusade against lasciviousness, salaciousness, and obscenity that resulted in the confiscation and incineration of more than three million pictures, postcards, and books he judged to be obscene. But as Amy Werbel shows in this rich cultural and social history, Comstock’s campaign to rid America of vice in fact led to greater acceptance of the materials he deemed objectionable, offering a revealing tale about the unintended consequences of censorship. In Lust on Trial, Werbel presents a colorful journey through Comstock’s career that doubles as a new history of post–Civil War America’s risqué visual and sexual culture. Born into a puritanical New England community, Anthony Comstock moved to New York in 1868 armed with his Christian faith and a burning desire to rid the city of vice. Werbel describes how Comstock’s raids shaped New York City and American culture through his obsession with the prevention of lust by means of censorship, and how his restrictions provided an impetus for the increased circulation and explicitness of “obscene” materials. By opposing women who preached sexual liberation and empowerment, suppressing contraceptives, and restricting artistic expression, Comstock drew the ire of civil liberties advocates, inspiring more open attitudes toward sexual and creative freedom and more sophisticated legal defenses. Drawing on material culture high and low, including numerous examples of the “obscenities” Comstock seized, Lust on Trial provides fresh insights into Comstock’s actions and motivations, the sexual habits of Americans during his era, and the complicated relationship between law and cultural change.

Seek, to Extol the Truth

Author : T. Hurley
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1645302180
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (453 download)

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Download or read book Seek, to Extol the Truth written by T. Hurley and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-24 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seek, to Extol The Truth By: T. Hurley Seek, to Extol The Truth is a culmination of five-plus years of a recurring dream the author has had. It will reveal hidden truths within the work that will shine on life and death, and what happens in between and beyond.