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

Taming Lust: Crimes Against Nature in the Early Republic

Doron S. Ben-Atar, Richard D. Brown

216 pages first pub 2014 (view 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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