Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: Crimes Against Nature 1
4. Chapter 1. The Sisyphean Battle Against Bestiality 10
5. Chapter 2. The Unlikely Prosecutions of John Farrell and Gideon Washburn 41
6. Chapter 3. Sexual Crisis in the Age of Revolution 71
7. Chapter 4. Fearful Rulers in Anxious Times 96
8. Chapter 5. Puritan Twilight in the New England Republics 129
9. Notes 151
10. Index 199
11. Acknowledgments 207