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describe homosexuality. The Pali Cannon, written in Sri Lanka between 600 BC and 100 BC, states that sexual relations, whether of homosexual or of heterosexual nature, is forbidden in the monastic code, and states that any acts of soft homosexual sex (such as masturbation and interfemural sex) does not entail a punishment but must be confessed to the monastery. These codes apply to monks only and not to the general population. The Kama Sutra written in India around 200 AD also described numerous homosexual sex acts positively.
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the majority of the ancient sources prior to the onset of the Abrahamic religions present homosexuality in the form of male domination or rape. Abrahamic religions played a key role in the spread of homophobia in further Asia, such as Islam through the Mongol Empire (where homosexuality was banned) to parts of Central Asia, Southern Asia and the Sinosphere, or Christianity through the numerous colonial adventures of European nations.
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sexual behavior may reveal rather negative thoughts and views, the tomb inscription of Nyankh-khnum and Khnum-hotep may instead suggest that homosexuality was likewise accepted. Ancient Egyptian documents never clearly say that same-sex relationships were seen as reprehensible or despicable. And no Ancient Egyptian document mentions that homosexual acts were set under penalty. Thus, a straight evaluation remains problematic.
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for example, even viewed heterosexuality as sinful and celebrated homosexuality instead. In many traditional Melanesian cultures a prepubertal boy would be paired with an older adolescent who would become his mentor and who would "inseminate" him (orally, anally, or topically, depending on the tribe)
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There are a handful of accounts by Arab travelers to Europe during the mid-1800s. Two of these travelers, Rifa'ah al-Tahtawi and Muhammad al-Saffar, show their surprise that the French sometimes deliberately mis-translated love poetry about a young boy, instead referring to a young woman, to maintain
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instituted the first law against consensual, non-monetized homosexuality in China. However, the punishment designated, which included a month in prison and 100 heavy blows, was actually the lightest punishment which existed in the Qing legal system. Homosexuality started to become eliminated in China
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was the last dynasty to include a chapter on male companions of the emperors in official documents. During these dynasties, the general attitude toward homosexuality was still tolerant, but male lovers started to be seen as less legitimate compared to wives and men are usually expected to get married
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South Asia has a recorded and verifiable history of homosexuality going back to at least 1200 BC. Hindu medical texts written in India from this period document homosexual acts and attempt to explain the cause in a neutral/scientific manner. Numerous artworks and literary works from this period also
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It is thought that ancient Assyria (2nd millennium BC to 1st millennium AD) viewed homosexuality as negative and at least criminal, with the religious codes of Zoroastrianism forbidding homosexuality, and the rise of Judaism, Christianity and Islam leading to homophobia in much of the western world;
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in particular—were renowned for their widespread practice of same-sex love, engaged in by a considerable part of the male population and constructed along with the classical pattern of Greece and Rome. But even as many of the male population were engaging in same-sex relationships, the authorities,
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made homosexuality a legally punishable offense for the passive partner: "All persons who have the shameful custom of condemning a man's body, acting the part of a woman's to the sufferance of alien sex (for they appear not to be different from women), shall expiate a crime of this kind in avenging
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was invented in the 20th century as sexual identities became defined by the predominant sex to which people are attracted and thus a label was needed for those who are not predominantly attracted to one sex. This points out that the history of sexuality is not solely the history of different-sex
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It remains unclear what exact view the Ancient Egyptians fostered about homosexuality. Any document and literature that actually contains sexually orientated stories never name the nature of the sexual deeds, but instead uses stilted and flowery paraphrases. While the stories about Seth and his
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Egyptologists and historians disagree about how to interpret the paintings of Nyankh-khnum and Khnum-hotep. Some scholars believe that the paintings reflect an example of homosexuality between two married men and prove that the Ancient Egyptians accepted same-sex relationships. Other scholars
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Homosexuality was generally accepted in many ancient and medieval eastern cultures such as those influenced by Buddhism, Hinduism, and Taoism. Homophobia in the eastern world is often discussed in the context of being an import from the western world, with some contending that definitions of
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Societal attitudes towards same-sex relationships have varied over time and place. Attitudes to male homosexuality have varied from requiring males to engage in same-sex relationships to casual integration, through acceptance, to seeing the practice as a minor sin, repressing it through law
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On homoeroticism in Florence and Savonarola's campaign against it, Michael Rocke, Forbidden Friendships: Homosexuality and Male Culture in Renaissance Florence (New York, 1996). More generally, on youth culture, see Richard Trexler, Public Life in Renaissance Florence (New York,
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was convicted of "gross indecency" in the United Kingdom, and lurid details from the trials (especially those involving young male sex workers) led to increased scrutiny of all facets of relationships between men. The most destructive backlash occurred when the
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Some ancient religious Assyrian texts may have contained prayers for divine blessings on homosexual relationships, though the same source acknowledges that homosexuality was regarded as reprehensible, and no less than criminal. Freely pictured art of
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However, many, especially in the academic world, regard the use of modern labels as problematic, owing to differences in the ways that different societies constructed sexual orientation identities and to the connotations of modern words like
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Passions of the Cut Sleeve: The Male Homosexual Tradition in China by Bret Hinsch; Review by: Frank Dikötter. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Vol. 55, No. 1(1992), Cambridge University Press, p.
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The complete Kāma Sūtra : the first unabridged modern translation of the classic Indian text by Vātsyāyana : including the Jayamangalā commentary from the Sanskrit by Yashodhara and extracts from the Hindi commentary by Devadatta
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Greek men had great latitude in their sexual expression, but their wives were severely restricted and could hardly move about the town unsupervised if she was old enough that people would ask whose mother she was, not whose wife she was.
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2. Male-to-male Intercourse as an Act of Domination. The majority of ancient sources present sexual-erotic intercation between people of same sex as an (often coerced) act of domination between the penetrating and the penetrated
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had a homosexual relationship with a Muslim leader named Sayyid Husain. In later Ming Dynasty, homosexuality began to be referred to as the "southern custom" due to the fact that Fujian was the site of a unique system of
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Homosexuality was deemed to be a psychiatric disorder for many years, although the studies this theory was based on were later determined to be flawed. In 1973 homosexuality was declassified as a mental illness in the
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had one or more male sex partners. However, except in unusual cases, such as Emperor Ai, the men named for their homosexual relationships in the official histories appear to have had active heterosexual lives as well.
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Procopius: Secret History: XIX. HOW HE SEIZED ALL THE WEALTH OF THE ROMANS AND THREW IT AWAY IN THE SEA AND ON THE BARBARIANS, translated by Richard Atwater, (Chicago: P. Covici, 1927; New York: Covici Friede, 1927)
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sexuality plus the history of same-sex sexuality, but a broader conception viewing of historical events in light of our modern concept or concepts of sexuality taken at its most broad and/or literal definitions.
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are, since it is apparently not in best interests of such rulers to have great ideas engendered in their subjects, or powerful friendships or physical unions, all of which love is particularly apt to produce".
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tomb. In this mastaba, several paintings depict both men embracing each other and touching their faces nose-on-nose. These depictions leave plenty of room for speculation, because in Ancient Egypt the
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prior to European colonization, a number of Nations had respected ceremonial and social roles for homosexual, bisexual, and gender-nonconforming individuals in their communities; in many contemporary
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implications, such as implying that Natives believe these individuals are "both male and female". However, it has generally met with more acceptance than the anthropological term it replaced.
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over a number of years in order for the younger to also reach puberty. Many Melanesian societies, however, have become hostile towards same-sex relationships since the introduction of
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and attitudes towards it varied through time, location, and social class. Chinese literature recorded multiple anecdotes of men engaging in homosexual relationships. In the story of
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to review the country's anti-sodomy laws; the final report advised decriminalizing consensual homosexual conduct, though the laws were not actually changed for another ten years.
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Penrose, Walter (2001). Hidden in History: Female Homoeroticism and Women of a "Third Nature" in the South Asian Past, Journal of the History of Sexuality 10.1 (2001), p.4
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and Allan A. Tulchin have argued that these arrangements amounted to an early form of same-sex marriage. This interpretation of these arrangements remains controversial.
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communities, these roles still exist. While each Indigenous culture has their own names for these individuals, a modern, pan-Indian term that was adopted in 1990 is "
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In 1867 he became the first self-proclaimed homosexual person to speak out publicly in defense of homosexuality when he pleaded at the Congress of German Jurists in
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includes a homosexual scene, but this was removed in its 1750 edition. Also in 1749, the earliest extended and serious defense of homosexuality in English,
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enforcement and judicial mechanisms, and to proscribing it under penalty of death. In addition, it has varied as to whether any negative attitudes towards
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Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century
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The Spanish conquerors were horrified to discover sodomy openly practiced among native peoples, and attempted to crush it out by subjecting the
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argument is that no one in antiquity or the Middle Ages experienced homosexuality as an exclusive, permanent, or defining mode of sexuality.
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in light of massive evidence of ancient art and love poetry, a more emotional connection than earlier researchers liked to acknowledge.
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expanded the proscription to the active partner as well, warning that such conduct can lead to the destruction of cities through the "
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European Enlightenment ideas contributed to the French revolutionaries indirectly decriminalising gay sex in 1789 as part of the
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in Germany particularly in the aftermath of World War 1. The modern LGBTQ rights movement emerged in the 20th century with the
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identify with any of the modern related terms, and that terms for other modern constructed or medicalized identities (such as
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Joseph Robert Thornton, Bowers v. Hardrick: An Incomplete Constitutional Analysis, 65 U.N.C. L. Rev. 1100, 1100 n. 11 (1987)
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Today, governments in the Middle East often ignore, deny the existence of, or criminalize homosexuality. Iranian President
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countries, same-sex intercourse officially carries the death penalty in several nations, including Saudi Arabia and Iran.
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Through the medieval period in Europe, homosexuality was generally condemned and thought to be the moral of the story of
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Gertz, Stephen J. "The Wages Of Sin: $ 80,000 For Rare Fanny Hill." Booktryst. Oct. 2012. Retrieved 15 July. 2017. <
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These developments suffered several setbacks, both coincidental and deliberate. For example, in 1895, famed playwright
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Sibalis, Michael David, 'The Regulation of Male Homosexuality in Revolutionary and Napoleonic France, 1789–1815',
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Men could also seek adolescent boys as partners as shown by some of the earliest documents concerning same-sex
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Gay Rights Or Wrongs: A Christian's Guide to Homosexual Issues and Ministry, by Mike Mazzalonga, 1996, p.11
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The formal practice, an erotic yet often restrained relationship between a free-born (i.e. not a slave or
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to obscure the sexual details) were not widely read by the general public, they did lead to the rise of
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Catharine Edwards, "Unspeakable Professions: Public Performance and Prostitution in Ancient Rome," in
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Gwen J. Broude and Sarah J. Greene, "Cross-Cultural Codes on Twenty Sexual Attitudes and Practices",
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a good portion of that population. Many of the prominent artists who defined the Renaissance such as
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In Search of Lost Texts: Thomas Cannon's 'Ancient and Modern Pederasty Investigated and Exemplified"
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praised its benefits in his early writings but in his late works proposed its prohibition. In the
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The best known case of possible homosexuality in Ancient Egypt is that of the two high officials
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were between older free men and slaves or freed youths who took the receptive role in sex. The
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and Anton Mätzler, accused of sodomy burned at the stake, Zurich 1482 (Zurich Central Library)
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of boys available for homosexual sex continued to be collected until the end of the reign of
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wrote a string of pro-homosexual articles and pamphlets, and "came out" in 1916 in his book
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Florentine proverb, ca. 1480. After Sabadino Degli Arienti in Le Porretane. Michael Rocke,
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Roman Military Service: Ideologies of Discipline in the Late Republic and Early Principate
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and then published in two pamphlets in 1869. These became the standard terms when used by
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was published in 1723 in England and was presumed by some modern scholars to be a novel.
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Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep – Evidence of Gay Relationships Exists as Early as 2400 B.C.?
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Historical personalities are often described using modern sexual identity terms such as
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disagree and interpret the scenes as an evidence that Nyankh-khnum and Khnum-hotep were
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are believed to have had relationships with men. The decline of this period of relative
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has historically been given less acknowledgment, explicit acceptance, and opposition.
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Monica E. McAlpine, "The Pardoner's Homosexuality and How It Matters"; critical study.
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that would precisely translate these concepts. A male citizen who willingly performed
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of sexuality foreign to their times, though others challenge this. A common thread of
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and passive sexual behaviors were directed particularly at "democratic" politicians
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and love (sometimes requited, sometimes not) for various women, but descriptions of
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The author has made adapted and expanded portions of this book available online as
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The earliest Western documents (in the form of literary works, art objects, and
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Homosexual and gender-variant individuals were also common among other pre-
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flames in the sight of the people." In 558, toward the end of his reign,
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