Strange Antics: A History of Seduction by Clement Knox

Strange Antics: A History of Seduction

Clement Knox

416 pages first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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In 1848 in New York, seduction—defined then as the “use of arts, persuasions, or wiles to overcome the resistance of the female who is not disposed, of her own volition, to step aside from the path of virtue”—became a crime. While one generation o...

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