Year of manufacture: 2009
Author: James Neill
Genre: History of culture, history of sexuality
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc.
ISBN: 978-0-7864-3513-5
Format: PDF
Number of Pages: 479
Language: English
The history of homosexuality in human society is traced from ancient times to the present. Ancient society, the culture of the medieval West, China, Japan, the world of Islam, the modern world are explored. At the basis of homosexuality, as the author argues, there are certain biological structures and drives that can be traced in a variety of biological species, while Homo sapiens find some form of decoration in the culture and structure of society.
Acknowledgments v
Preface 1
Introduction: The Heterosexual Myth 5
PART I. THE INHERITANCE OF NATURE 11
1. Against Nature? Homosexual Behavior in the Animal World 13
2. The Nature People: Same-Sex Behavior Among Indigenous Peoples 26
3. The Inheritance of Nature: The Ambisexual Harmony of Human Sexuality 57
PART II. AMBISEXUAL TRADITIONS IN WORLD CIVILIZATIONS 79
4. Same-Sex Behavior at the Dawn of Civilization 81
5. Love Between Warriors: Homosexual Customs of the Early Indo-Europeans 115
6. Greek Homosexuality: The Age of Heroes—Love-Inspired Valor 130
7. Greek Homosexuality: Educational Homosexuality in Classical Greece 144
8. Ambisexuality in Ancient Rome: Homosexual Customs in the Republic and Early Empire 186
9. Ambisexuality in Ancient Rome: The Christianized Empire and the Foundations of Western Homophobia 209
10. A Regal Love: The Ancient Traditions of Same-Sex Love in China 234
11. Monks and Warriors: A Thousand Years of Noble Love in Japan 269
12. Homosexual Love in the World of Islam 298
PART III. SEXUAL NEUROSIS IN WESTERN SOCIETY 319
13. Medieval Europe: Sexual Tolerance in the Age of Chivalry 321
14. Medieval Europe: The Propagation of Neurosis 359
15. Authoritarian Religion versus Human Ambisexuality 389
16. Nature Out of Balance: Sexual Neurosis in Modern Society 426
Chapter Notes 439
Bibliography 457
Index 465
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