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‘Sex and Punishment’: author and lawyer, Eric Berkowitz, on 4,000 years of judging desire

In ancient Greece, the husband of a cheating wife could shame his rival by shoving spiky fish and radishes up the offender's butt. In the Middle Ages, impotence was one of the few allowable reasons for divorce. Throughout history a common punishment for rapists was marriage — to their victims. While reading about the evolution […]

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