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Non-Fiction of Gay Interest
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Content: An influential review of homosexuality in the UK in the 1950s which helped to inform policymakers and public debate, leading to 1957 publication of the Wolfenden Report and to partial legalisation of male homosexuality in 1967. Foreword by Hermann Mannheim Introduction Part I: The Basic Facts I Homosexuality in various communities II The incidence of homosexuality today III Homosexual types IV The legal and social problem V Two typical cases Part II: Cause and Cure VI Glands and heredity VII The psycho-analytical approach: an introduction VIII A consideration of psychological causes IX Homosexuality and mental abnormality X Treatment for the individual XI Prevention List of References Index Background / Biography: Reviews: Arbery Books also sells secondhand and rare non-gay fiction and non-fiction. Click here for our full list. |
"To most people to-day homosexual indulgence seems so obviously abnormal that it may come as a surprise to learn that many communities do not share their attitude. In a recent survey of anthropological literature the investigators Ford and Beach found that in 49 out of 76 (that is 64 per cent) of the primitive societies about which information was available some form of homosexual activity was considered normal and acceptable. I some societies maly homosexuality was universal. They quote several examples of this. For instance, the Siwans, a small North African tribe, who live by raising crops and domestic animals, expect all men and boys to engage in homosexual sodomy, and think a man peculiar if he does not have both male and female affairs. Among the Keraki of New Guinea the young men are introduced to anal intercourse at puberty by older men, and thereafter spend the rest of their bachelorhood doing the same to other initiates. They have to pass through these two stages of first passive and later active homosexual sodomy before they can achieve full social status and have relations with women. The Kiwai have similar customs; they believe sodomy desirable for making young men strong. The Aranda of Australia carry the custom a stage further. Their youths commonly go through a stage of homosexual 'marriage' in which they live as a 'wife' with an older bachelor for several years until the elder partner breaks away and takes a female wife." opening paragraph, Chapter One, references omitted Secondhand booksellers |
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