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ERIC BERKOWITZ is a writer, lawyer, and journalist. He has a degree in print journalism from University of Southern California and has published in The Los Angeles Times and The Los Angeles Weekly, and for the Associated Press. He was an editor of the West Coast’s premier daily legal publication, The Los Angeles Daily Journal. He lives in San Francisco. He is the author of: The Boundaries of Desire: Bad Laws, Good Sex, and Changing Identities and Sex and Punishment: Four Thousand Years of Judging Desire. His new book, Dangerous Ideas: A Brief History of Censorship in the West, from the Ancients to Fake News is out now. Eric on Twitter. Find me on Instagram or Twitter. Please consider supporting this podcast. This Amazon affiliate link kicks a few bucks back my way. Intro music: “Brightside of the Sun,” by Basin and Range; "A Little Bit of Soul," by Kid Loco; "Smoke Alarm," by Carsie Blanton.
Chris talks with Eric Berkowitz, author of Sex and Punishment: Four Thousand Years of Judging Desire. This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at chrisryan.substack.com/subscribe
Chris talks with Eric Berkowitz, author of Sex and Punishment: Four Thousand Years of Judging Desire.
For prosecutors, as well as priests, how we have sex has long been a matter of serious concern. So serious, in fact, that whenever community standards are challenged, the response is often repression, and, sometimes, severe punishment. Eric Berkowitz is an attorney in San Francisco who has studied this phenomenon. His new book is called “Sex and Punishment: Four Thousand Years of Judging Desire” (Counterpoint, 2012). Berkowitz speaks with California Lawyer editor Martin Lasden. Series: "Legally Speaking" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 24130]
For prosecutors, as well as priests, how we have sex has long been a matter of serious concern. So serious, in fact, that whenever community standards are challenged, the response is often repression, and, sometimes, severe punishment. Eric Berkowitz is an attorney in San Francisco who has studied this phenomenon. His new book is called “Sex and Punishment: Four Thousand Years of Judging Desire” (Counterpoint, 2012). Berkowitz speaks with California Lawyer editor Martin Lasden. Series: "Legally Speaking" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 24130]
For prosecutors, as well as priests, how we have sex has long been a matter of serious concern. So serious, in fact, that whenever community standards are challenged, the response is often repression, and, sometimes, severe punishment. Eric Berkowitz is an attorney in San Francisco who has studied this phenomenon. His new book is called “Sex and Punishment: Four Thousand Years of Judging Desire” (Counterpoint, 2012). Berkowitz speaks with California Lawyer editor Martin Lasden. Series: "Legally Speaking" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 24130]
For prosecutors, as well as priests, how we have sex has long been a matter of serious concern. So serious, in fact, that whenever community standards are challenged, the response is often repression, and, sometimes, severe punishment. Eric Berkowitz is an attorney in San Francisco who has studied this phenomenon. His new book is called “Sex and Punishment: Four Thousand Years of Judging Desire” (Counterpoint, 2012). Berkowitz speaks with California Lawyer editor Martin Lasden. Series: "Legally Speaking" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 24130]