The Pursuit of Sodomy
Subtitle: Male Homosexuality in Renaissance and Enlightenment Europe (Research on Homosexuality, Vol 17) (Research on Homosexuality, Vol 17)
Contributors: Gert Hekma (Editor)
Publisher: Haworth Press
Published: January 1989
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 553
ISBN-13: 9780866564915
Subjects: Gay studies (Gay men); Sociology, Social Studies; Sources; Psychology; History; Social Science; Sodomy; Sociology; Gay Studies; Human Sexuality; Europe; Homosexuality, Male; Social history
First sentence: Male homosexuality has a history, but this history consists principally of sodomites and buggers, pederasts and catamites, berdaches and "contrary lovers" rather than homosexuals or gays in the modern sense.