Taming Lust: Crimes Against Nature in the Early Republic by Richard D. Brown, Doron S. Ben-Atar

Taming Lust: Crimes Against Nature in the Early Republic

Richard D. Brown, Doron S. Ben-Atar

216 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

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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 ...

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