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Anthropological Legal and Medical Studies on Pederasty in Europe

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What is pederasty? A great number of readers will have no immediate answer, or at best an ambivalent one, to this question. And while this is unfortunate, it is not at all surprising in a society where good taste promulgates mass confusion in matters of sex, particularly abnormal sex.

To return to the initial question, pederasty is, in its strictest sense, simply anal intercourse between two men. However, lay usage has expanded its meaning to include any sex acts performed by members of the same sex. The interpretation of pederasty in the present book follows the first definition, with the additional emphasis being placed on the historical meaning of the term: that of love between a man and a young boy. Thus Pederasty in Europe is an in depth study of the resurgence of Greek love in the European countries.

Chapter and subchapter titles include such topics as pederasty in boarding schools, Oriental religions and pederasty, celebrated affairs and criminal trials, pederasty among Roman emperors, antiquity of pederasty in India, China, Japan, Persia, and Greece, pederasty in Russia, France, England and Italy, sexual physiology in jurisprudence.

The work was originally published in the 19th century, so it has a unique collection of material and insights.