Luis Compton's Homosexuality and Civilization
When Europeans first arrived in the Americas, they found men engaged in erotic entanglements virtually on the quayside. They responded with the horror their religion had implanted in them, holding out their bibles and shouting "Abomination! Devilry! Witchcraft!" The problem was they found the same thing almost everywhere they set foot in East Asia too. China and Japan both looked on this kind of activity with a cool shrug of the shoulders. But as European colonizination gathered force so did hangings, disembowelment by mastiffs and burning people alive. Luis Crompton, in his new book "Homosexuality and Civilization," researches gay history in great detail.
Taipei Times
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