Sexual Blackmail A Modern History

Blackmail trials revealed that one's sexual reputation - that vague entity - had, in an increasingly commercial age, a definite monetary value. And as middle-class notions of sexual respectability emerged, so in tandem did sexual blackmail. Chronicling the emergence of this parasitic form of crime casts a fresh light on the history of sexual assault, prostitution, divorce, abortion, and homosexuality and provides striking evidence that when morality was made the law's business it often became the criminal's business as well.McLaren, Angus is the author of 'Sexual Blackmail A Modern History' with ISBN 9780674009240 and ISBN 067400924X.