"From Genesis Chapter 38 to fertility fraud, this book details law and society's strange enduring relationship with what she calls the "unmentionable": semen. Bernstein has written the rare book that is personal and scholarly, provocative and at times laugh-out-loud funny." - I. Glenn Cohen, James A. Attwood and Leslie Williams Professor of Law, Harvard Law School "Anita Bernstein is a brilliant, audacious, and original thinker. With clarity, wit, and rigor, she transforms what law has long ignored into a subject of urgent significance. Making the Best of Semen is sharp, surprising, and absorbing – a masterclass in legal imagination." - Bridget Crawford, University Distinguished Professor, Pace University "A tour de force on the substance no one likes to talk about, but which is essential for human survival: semen. Everything you wanted to know, and didn't want to know, about this fascinating, dangerous, but life-giving substance is found between these covers." - Jonathan Herring, author of Law Through the Life Course "In Making the Best of Semen, Anita Bernstein's original and plainly sensible argument for controlling ejaculate unmasks this substance as disease-making, death-inducing, and the actual cause of every unplanned pregnancy in history. I'm convinced: Controlling men's bodies is the up-stream answer to eradicating abortion!" - Jennifer Baumgardner, multi-media feminist and writer-in-residence at Smith College "A fascinating, sometimes uncomfortable, and absolutely necessary exposure of a primary actor in society and policy that has remained protected and concealed for too long. Bernstein's book offers important history and context for understanding current health law, as well as providing an image of more egalitarian and safer potential regulations." - Francesca Laguardia, Montclair State University "As this important book reminds us, when we don't talk about important matters, we may miss out on much of value. We also may suffer avoidable harms. As Bernstein observes, the unmentionability of semen has been costly. With her fascinating, insightful, and provocative analysis, she shows how we can realize much more benefit and bear much less harm from semen." - David Orentlicher, William S. Boyd School of Law "Bernstein's clear-eyed, practical, and eminently readable reflections offer us a roadmap for smarter, more humane regualtory frameworks. This is an essential roadmap to the futures we are already making—but need to make better." - Jody Lyneé Madeira, author of Shooting Blanks: What Happens When Law Can't Keep Up With Technology
