Sex and Punishment: Four Thousand Years of Judging Desire (64 page)

In France, where this book was written, I found refuge at the American Library in Paris, a writer’s dreamscape where everything one does feels significant. Thanks to generations of American donors, the ALP’s collection is also surprisingly deep, and I made many useful discoveries there. The New York University libraries were another important source of research materials, and I thank my son Lawrence for keeping a steady stream of books flowing from NYU to me in Paris. Finally, the libraries at the Sorbonne and the Université Paris II—Panthéon-Assas were useful, even as they were manned by people bent on resisting efforts by non-French researchers to use their collections.

In the course of my research I formed intimate friendships with characters of all stripes. I grew close to many of the actors in the stories I uncovered, some of them gone for thousands of years but no less alive in my cloistered world. Key to my understanding of their lives was the work of the brilliant historians on whom I relied, and whose insights and superb writing both humbled and inspired me. Chief among these giants are Peter Bardaglio, John Boswell, James A. Brundage, Vern L. Bullough, Eva Cantarella, David Cohen, Louis Crompton, Joan E. DeJean, Catharine Edwards, Brigitte Ericksson, Lynn Hunt, Paula Findlen, Debra Hamel, Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz. Isabel V. Hull, Ruth Mazo Karras, Rebecca Langlands, Thomas A.J. McGinn, Mary E. Odem, Holt N. Parker, Julie Peakman, Sarah B. Pomeroy, Martha T. Roth, Catherine Rider, Aline Rousselle, Guido Ruggiero, Ariadne Staples, Lawrence Stone, and John J. Winkler.

For the genesis of this book, I am indebted to Marc Cooper and Kenneth Starr, two outsized personalities at the University of Southern California who encouraged me to get busy writing books, and especially to Karl Fleming, the man who as much as instructed me to write a lively history of the law.

Once the writing of the book was underway, I depended on a number of people for feedback and suggestions. Tops on this list are Charles Fleming, Bill Groshelle, Adam Kaufman, Tony de Toro, and Rick Wirick, all of whom read my drafts and tolerated my ranting with grace, patience and intelligence. Charles and Rick—both accomplished writers—were also uncommonly generous in championing my work to publishers, agents, and the like. I hope that one day I can provide others with the kind of unselfish support they gave to me.

For editing of the text, I turned to Mitchell Albert, without whom this book would not exist. From that first drink-sodden evening in Frankfurt came Mitch’s offer to publish some of my work in PEN International magazine, which he edited. His editing on that excerpt was so good, and my writing so much better for his efforts, that I asked him to edit the entire book. From that point forward, I trusted Mitch as the last word on questions of structure, style, tone, and focus. It is impossible to overstate my gratitude for his support. Mitch also introduced me to picture hunter extraordinaire Jennifer Jeffries.

The book was published with the intelligent and unwavering support of Laura Mazer, at Counterpoint, who became my advocate and friend. Through Laura came the sage guidance of editors Jack Shoemaker and Charlie Winton, the help of maestro copy editor Matthew Grace, and the enthusiastic support of the rest of the Counterpoint staff.

No less important to my work have been my friends, whom I love dearly. In Europe, there are Glenn Burney, Valérie Latour-Burney, Laurence and François Brunet, Dominique Schneider, Sabine Haudepin, John Johnson and Francois Prieur, Florence Eclanchet, Marilyn Palik, Stephane Moisset, Maria Kassimova (who gave me Bulgaria), Christopher Forinash, Norma Jean and Frantisek Deak, Pierre Coret, Ingrid and Vincent Callies, and many others. In the United States, there are Jack Kaufman, Julie Singer, Paula and Phil Glosserman, Marion Solomon, JoEllen Brainin-Rodriguez, Josh Becker, Pam Becker, Curtis Kaufman, Helen Wu, Alan Zafran, Susan Utell, Amy Ziering, and Gil Kofman. This list goes on. Every one of these people gave me unwavering support. All of them are friends in the truest sense of the word.

Not one day could have been passed without the love of Lawrence, Claire and Gillian, my three children, and Jennifer, my wife, lover, and lifelong delight.

INDEX

120 Days of Sodom
(Sade)

1861 Offences Against the Person Act

1885 Criminal Law Amendment Act

A

Abraham

Abraham, Saint

Academy Awards

Achilles

Act for the Suppression of Chinese Houses of Ill-Fame

Adam and Eve

adultery

Advice to a Bridegroom
(Craddock)

Aemilia

Aeschines

Aeschylus
Eumenides

affrèrement

Africa

African Americans
See also
slavery; slaves

Africans

Against Neaera

Against the Stepmother

Against Timarchus

Agatha, Saint

age of consent

Agnes

Agnes of Merania

Aguirre, Francisco de

Ahhotep I

Akademos

Alabama

Alary, Jean

Alary, Pierre

Albermarle (London)

Albertus Magnus, Saint

Alce

Alcibiades

Alcuin

Aldridge, Henry

Alexander, John

Alexander III, Pope

Alexander the Great

Alexandra, Saint

Alexios I Komnenos

AMA.
See
American Medical Association (AMA)

amalgamation.
See
miscegenation

Ambrose, Saint

American Medical Association (AMA)

American Revolution

Amory, Thomas

Amsterdam

anal penetration

Andronicus II

An Ideal Husband
(Wilde)

Anne of Austria

Anthony, Saint

Antigone

antimiscegenation laws

Antioch College

Antioch College Sexual Offensive Prevention Policy of 2006

Antiochus IV Epiphanes

Antoinette, Queen Marie

Anubis

aphrodisiacs

Aphrodite

Apollo

Apollodorus

Apostle Paul

Appel, Baron Ludwig Christian Günther von

Appius Claudius Crassus

Aragon

Aretino, Pietro
Aretino’s Postures
Dialoghi

Aretino’s Postures
(Aretino)

Aristophanes

Aristotle’s Masterpiece

Arizona

Arkansas

Arkansas Supreme Court

Armstrong, Eliza

Arnobius

Arsinoe

Ashcroft, John

Aspasia

Aspenhalghe, Agnes

Assembly of Nippur

Assyria

Assyrians

Athenogenes

Athens

Atmere

Atrium Vestae

Augustine, Saint

Augustine of Hippo.
See
Augustine, Saint

Augustinian family laws

Augustus

Austria

Austrian Woman on the Rampage, or the Royal Orgy

Avars

Avignon

Avondale Hotel (London)

B

Babylon

Babylonians

Bacchus

Balboa, Vasco Núñez de

Ball, James

Ballard, Martha

Baltimore, Lord

Bamberg

banishment

Barbary Coast.
See
San Francisco

Barbier, Edmond-Jean-François

Barden, Jesse

Barry, Madame du

bastards

Bastille (Paris)

Bathycles

Battle of Cannae

Battle of Chaeronea

Baudelaire, Charles
Les Fleurs du Mal

Bavaria

bawdy courts (England)

Beaumarchais, Pierre-Augustin Caron

Beauvoir, Simone de

Beggar’s Benison

Belgium

Benedict, Saint

Bennett, D.M.

Bennett
opinion

Berlin

Bern

Bernard of Cluny

Berryer, M.

bestiality

Bible

Bicks, Harry

Billin, Martin

Bisexuality in the Ancient World
(Cantarella)

Bisset, George M.

Bithynia

Black Death

Blacknall, Rev. John

Blackstone, William

Blasio

Boccaccio, Giovanni

Bodin, Jean

Bombay

Bombay High Court

Bond, Ann

Boniface

Book of the Prick. See La Cazzaria
(Vignali)

Booth, Catherine

Booty, James

Bordoni, Giovanni.
See
Vizzani, Catherine

Boston

Boswell, James

Boudin, Ludwig

Boulton, Earnest

Boura, Liseta de, Sister

Bracciolini, Poggio

Brazil

Bridewell Hospital (London)

Britby, John

British East India Company

British Medical Journal

Broadway, Giles

brothels

Brouderer, Elizabeth

Brundage, James A.
Law, Sex, and Christian Society in Medieval Europe

Bruster, Alice

Bryan, James

buggery.
See
sodomy

Bunch o’ Grapes Tavern (London)

Burg, B.R.
Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition

Burger, Warren

Butheric

Butler, Eleanor.
See
Irish Nell

Butler, Josephine

Butler, Mary

Butler, William

C

Caballeria, Don Sancho de la

Cadillac, Sieur de

California

Caligula

Call, John

Calvin, John

Cambridge University

Caminha, Álvaro de

Canada

Cannon, John

Canons
(Theodore)

Cantarella, Eva
Bisexuality in the Ancient World

Cão, Bishop D. Gaspar

Capri

Carmina Priapeia
(Virgil)

Carson, Edward

Carthage

Case of John Atherton, Bishop of Waterford in Ireland, Who Was Convicted for the Sin of Uncleanliness with a Cow and Other Creatures, for Which He Was Hang’d at Dublin
(Curll)

Case of Seduction . . . The Late Proceedings at Paris against the Rev. Abbé
des Rues for Committing Rapes upon 133 Virgins

Cassius Dio

Castlehaven, Earl of

castration

Catholic Church

Catholics

Cato the Elder

Cavatorta, Polisena

CBS

CDA.
See
Contagious Diseases Act (CDA)

celibacy

censorship

charioteers

Charitable Surgeon
(Curll)

Charlemagne

Charles I, King

Charles II, King

Charteris, Col. Francis

Chaumont-en-Bassigny

Cheops.
See
Khufu

Children’s Hour
(Hellman)

Chile

Chinese

Chiverton, Isaac

Chouard, Edmond-Pierre

Christianity

Christians

church courts (England)

circumcision

Cities of the Plain.
See
Gomorrah; Sodom

Civil War (U.S.)

Clark, Daniel

Clark, Tom C.

Claudius

Cleland, John
Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (Fanny Hill)

Clement V, Pope

Clement VII, Pope

Cleveland Street brothel

Cleveland Street case

Clinton, Bill

Cockburn, Alexander (Lord Chief Justice)

Cock Tavern (London)

Code Noir
(France)

Code of Hammurabi

coitus interruptus

Colette

Colfax, Schuyler

Colline Gate

Colrat

Columbanus, Saint

Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS).
See
CBS

Columbus, Christopher

common-law courts.
See
secular courts

Comstock, Anthony
Frauds Exposed
Traps for the Young

Comstock Act

Confessional Unmasked: Showing the Depravity of the Romish Priesthood, the Iniquity of the Confessional and the Questions Put to Females in Confession

Confessions
(Rousseau)

Connecticut

Constans

Constantine

Constantinople

Constantius II

Constituent Assembly

Contagious Diseases Act (CDA)

Convent of Repentance
(Metanoia)

convents

Cooper Alley (San Francisco)

Cope, John

coprophilia

Corinth

Corinthians

Cornelia

Cornish, William

Cortés, Hernán

Council of Ten (Venice)

Council of Trent

Counter-Reformation

courtesans
See also
prostitution

Courtney, Edward (Ned)

Craddock, Ida
Advice to a Bridegroom
Wedding Night

Crete

Crimean War

Crooke, Mary

Crusades

Culam, Claudine de

Cupid’s Yokes
(Heywood)

Curll, Edmund
Case of John Atherton, Bishop of Waterford in Ireland, Who Was Convicted for the Sin of Uncleanliness with a Cow and Other Creatures, for Which He Was Hang’d at Dublin
Charitable Surgeon
Peer and the Maidenhead
Treatise on the Use of Flogging
Venus in the Cloister, or the Nun in Her Smock

D

Dadaji Bhikaji

d’Adelswärd-Fersen, Baron Jacques

Daily News

Daily Telegraph

Daniel, Mary

Daniel, William

Davis, Agnes

Davis, Hugh

Davis, Margaret

Deep Throat

Deer Park (France)

Defense of Marriage Act

degredados

Delaware