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This review is from: History of Corporal Punishment Pb (Paperback)
The author is, in a large part, tries to rationalize some inherent associations between human sexuality and our still barbaric fascination with Corporal Punishment & violence towards each other.
Look at the chapter title page. He does do a good job in referencing what written accounts are available from the past 3000 years or so. There are not many written accounts. A lot of the book focuses on the middle ages & the role of the church in encouraging the use of corporal punishment use in judicial, at home, and in public. It takes the reader through the ways that society changed in the late 18th and through the 19th century on there attitudes, why the sociological shifts occur and what prompted the reasoning at these various times. The book was written in 1968 so keep that in mind when you read it. Sections of the book are brutal so readers should be aware that Corporal Punishments have caused deaths in both the schools and the military. At some points when I was reading, I felt the author was judging all of us about the things he was researching. This is in part, justified. It would be nice to find a bit more objectivity. However, if the subject is of interest to you, I believe it to be more factual for the actual history than most books are. This book is NOT A PARENTING GUIDE! Great & intense read!
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