Many countries have a history of homosexuality.
I'll find you some.
Of course, the most striking thing in the history of homosexuality is the situation in ancient Greek civilization. In ancient Greece, adult men often fell in love with teenagers who had passed puberty but not yet reached maturity, especially those aged between 12 and 16. During the 200 years from the 6th century BC to the 4th century BC, the Greeks regarded homosexuality as a part of "higher education". When a teenager receives a traditional basic education, he is placed under the wing of an older man, who is called a "lover". Teenagers are called "favorites". This adult is usually in his early thirties and is responsible for the moral and mental development education of teenagers. He treats teenagers with kindness, understanding, warmth and pure love, with the sole purpose of cultivating their moral perfection. In the war, they fought side by side. If the teenager made a mistake, the adults would be punished for the teenager. When a teenager grows up, he will either get married or become the protector of another teenager, that is, a "lover." On the battlefield, "same-sex love" is also appreciated. In many battles, the Spartan army won the war because of the "same-sex love" of soldiers. Plato once commented: "A small group of soldiers who love each other and fight side by side can defeat a huge army. Every soldier doesn't want to be seen by his "lover" leaving the team or laying down his weapon. They would rather die than be humiliated ... in this case, the worst coward is encouraged by God's love and will also show a man's natural courage. The famous Thebes Holy Army, composed of pairs of soldiers who loved each other, fought for more than 30 years with brilliant achievements, and was finally defeated by Alexander the Great of Macedonia. In the last battle, all 300 holy warriors were gloriously killed or fatally wounded. (Donna Hill, page 4 1-44)
Gay love is also common in Athens. General assisi Viad, an Athenian politician, is such a legend. When he was seventeen or eighteen, he became the tallest and most handsome young man in Athens at that time. Wherever he goes, a large crowd follows him. These men flirted with him like beautiful girls and courted him. He is very good at playing the role of a slut-mocking his admirers or flirting with them, making them very embarrassed. If he is in a good mood or profitable, he sometimes gives these gay followers a little favor. So he became the idol of Athens youth. (Hunter, 19-20 pages)
In a word, the Greeks think that men are almost perfect creatures, so they are ideal lovers. This is especially true for those men who have cultural accomplishment and elegant taste, because they regard spiritual affinity as part of their pursuit of love. Immature handsome teenagers can ignite their fiery emotional fire more than heterosexual couples. They are as shy, energetic and full of vigor as girls, and their masculinity is in the bud. This kind of love goes far beyond the category of pure physiology and becomes an elegant aesthetic taste. Plato even thinks that "sacred love" only exists between men, and only the love between men is the real aristocratic and chivalrous emotional form. In his excerpts, he praised the love between men like this: "Through the love for boys at night, a man begins to see the true meaning of beauty after getting up." (quoted from larrea, 128).
In addition, gay male prostitutes were allowed in ancient Greece, especially Athens, and foreigners could rent male prostitutes for a long time. Although the parents of young boys involved in prostitution should be punished, it is extremely rare that they are actually taken to court.
In the sixth century, the Romans also often paid beautiful boys. At that time, there was a custom among freemen to equip the young master with a slave boy of the same age to satisfy his initial sexual desire.
At that time, lesbian atmosphere was also very popular. Some lesbians dress up as men, take part in wars and hunting activities, and marry another woman. They get along like husband and wife. It is said that the poetess Sappho established a girls' school on Lesbos Island. Her poems are so famous that she is called "the tenth muse". Although she had a husband and children, she fell in love with her students one after another, and finally died in the deep sea because she was rejected by her lover. In addition, it is said that lesbians were more popular in Roman times than in ancient Greece.
In France in the18th century and Louis in the14th era, women occupied a prominent position in all aspects. Perhaps it is out of disgust at this situation that a gay group has formed in society. People in this group have nothing to do with women. Most of its members were nobles, and the prince was also involved, which alarmed Louis XIV and forced him to ask about it himself.
In Britain, the famous Wilde case caused an uproar. Wilde was sentenced to two years in prison for homosexuality. 1900 after his death, books and plays were banned, and the publishing and literary circles were silent. In the bad atmosphere at that time, even Grice's scientific works were banned.
Homosexuality with commercial color is a major feature of prostitution in the19th century, especially in Britain and France. French male prostitutes started earlier, and after giving up the vulgar custom of burning witches, they changed to burning homosexuals for a long time. But by 1725, people's ideas have changed a lot. The Napoleonic Code relaxed the punishment for homosexuality to a considerable extent. By 1806, gay men and lesbians are tolerated, if not commonplace. At that time, there were hundreds of male prostitutes in Paris, the most famous of which was Andre, whose night salary was as high as 1800 francs, while the daily salary of a mechanic was only 2 to 4 francs. (Downhill, pp. 224-225)
At the beginning of the 20th century, during the reign of Kaiser Wilhelm II, there were many homosexuals in Germany. According to Hautzfeld, there were 20,000 male prostitutes (6,000,2000) in Berlin at that time, so the French called homosexuality a "German disease". Although Germany's legislation on homosexuality was very strict at that time, it was only applicable when it involved luring teenagers and arousing public concern, and it was only applicable to unknown people. At that time, rumors about homosexuality among senior officials in the military, administrative and diplomatic departments intensified, and a Berlin publication even claimed that there was a gay group at the highest level to form the second government and deceive the emperor. Therefore, exposing this group has become a patriotic act. The publisher Hatton published an article attacking homosexuality, which caused the whole society to besiege homosexuals. It is proved that the prince also participated in the homosexual conspiracy, which led to the abdication of the prince, which was discussed by the ruling and opposition parties for many years.
In feudal Japan, it was common for monks to live with beautiful teenagers. Every warrior has a boy, and duels often happen for this boy. Until the middle of19th century, there were tea rooms in Japan that provided male prostitutes.
In the study of homosexuality, there are a lot of comprehensive studies besides the research of a single country and society. Ford and Beach studied anthropological literature and found that among 76 primitive tribes, 49 regarded homosexuality as normal behavior. In the world of the 20th century, two thirds of the society seems to acquiesce in homosexual activities. In fact, there may not be a society without homosexuality at all.
There are gay men in Swann, North Africa, and prominent Swann men borrow sons from each other and openly talk about their male gender, just like discussing sex with women. According to custom, both married and unmarried men must engage in homosexual activities. If a Swan doesn't have sex with other men, he will be regarded as a freak.
In some primitive tribes in the northwest of the United States, such as the Kadi tribe, people raise their sons as daughters, let them wear girls' clothes, do girls' things, and only play games with girls. 10 to 15, let him marry a rich man.
In some tribes in northeast Siberia, there are often some men who are concubines of other adult men.
Homosexuality is also common among some ethnic groups in Hawaiian island countries.
Among the East Eskimos, some women refuse to marry men, but they show male behavior.
In Cumberland, Western Australia, if a man can't find a woman as an adult, he will live with his "underage wife". In southern Australia, elderly people without wives usually have one or two boys to live with them. The old people looked at them jealously and treated them as sodomy objects.
In our 4,000-year history, there are a lot of records about homosexuality in official history and unofficial history. When did homosexuality first appear in China? The legend began with the emperor. Ji Yun (Xiao Lan), a scholar in Qing Dynasty, said in Notes of Yuewei Caotang: "It is said that the child molester was the first emperor." (Volume 12) But according to Mr. Pan Guangdan's textual research, this record is not reliable, because even the emperor himself is still under discussion.
According to research, as early as the Shang Dynasty, China had such sayings as "beating urchins", "beautiful men went bankrupt" and "beautiful women broke their homes", and there were also well-known historical figures and stories such as "Yu Tao" (Spring and Autumn Period), "Broken Sleeves" (Han Dynasty), (Warring States Period) and "An". Historically, Long Yangjun "brushed the pillow mat" for Wang Wei; Zixia Mi and Wei Linggong "eat peaches separately"; Emperor Han Ai sleeps in Dong Xian, and Dong Xian holds the emperor's sleeve. The emperor couldn't bear to wake him up, so he broke his sleeves. Later generations used argots such as "Longyang", "Yutao" and "Broken Sleeves" to refer to homosexuality.
Mr. Pan Guangdan looked up the history books and found that "almost every emperor before Han Dynasty had a homosexual partner". Emperor Wen of Han favored Deng Tong and let him mine his own coins in Tongshan. As a result, Deng Tong became the person who benefited the most from "color" in the history of China.
There were lesbians in the Han Dynasty. They disguised themselves as lovers and slept and ate together. At that time, Empress Chen had no children, and ordered the imperial secretary to dress up as an emperor and share a bed with her. When Emperor Wu learned of this, he was furious and denounced her as "adultery between men and women".
Before the Han Dynasty, "intimacy and molestation of children" was only a special hobby of princes and nobles, but by the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, it was gradually popularized among literati and the public and sung in public. "The Jin and Six Dynasties were an era of paying attention to personality ... Among all kinds of characters, the most recorded ones were physical appearance, physical appearance, and men also paid attention to physical appearance. It seems that there are only two times in Chinese and foreign history, the Greek in the west and the Southern and Northern Dynasties in China. " (Ge Lishi, Pan Note, page 53 1) Evidence of the prevalence of gay men in the history of male exquisite appearance. After the Jin and Six Dynasties, there was no record of homosexuality in the official history.
In the Tang and Five Dynasties, the trend of masculinity gradually declined, but it flourished in the Song Dynasty. Men openly engage in prostitution and gather in romantic workshops to solicit business. In the Song Dynasty, it was necessary to legislate for arrest: "One person is a prostitute, with a staff of 100 yuan, and the accuser is rewarded with 50 yuan", which shows the heyday of male prostitutes at that time.
In the Yuan Dynasty, masculinity declined again and revived in the Ming Dynasty. There are Emperor Zheng De who "pampers young and handsome officials", senior officials who "don't eat during the day and don't sleep at night", and Confucian scholars who "indulge in Toy Boy and don't ask young and old".
After the peak of male sexual love in Ming Dynasty, the situation was not inferior in Qing Dynasty. The laws of Ming and Qing dynasties prohibited officials from engaging in prostitution, which may be one of the reasons why they had to find another way out. At that time, most of the men admired by literati were actors in the pear garden, while ordinary people went to the "xianggongtangzi" to have fun. Xianggongtangzi is a brothel with similar facilities. (Donald Hill, page 105- 106)
In the Qing Dynasty, the system of "private lodging" prevailed, and it became common for officials, wealthy businessmen and livestock farmers to support each other. These big families buy beautiful little boys for their owners to enjoy, which is called "masculinity", and the children are called "xianggong" and "Gu Xiang". According to Mr. Pan Guangdan's textual research, the title "xianggong" was originally only applicable to the actor who played the leading role, and later became the title for the actor who was also a homosexual object. Later, busybodies thought that the name "xianggong" was indecent, so they changed it to "Gu Xiang", with similar pronunciation and more pertinent meaning. At that time, there was a book in Beijing that was almost like a guidebook, called Life at the Fair. There was a poem in it, which recited Gu Xiang Che. The poem said, "A young singer is like a flower in a winding street. You should be afraid of passers-by vying to hang a curtain. By the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, actors like Tian Jiyun (Xiang Jiu) began to advocate the abolition of the so-called "private residence" system. Mr. Pan Guangdan pointed out that when actors and actresses are not allowed to co-star, men must play the leading role and women must play the leading role. Therefore, being an actor is the best way for homosexuals and transvestites. In the history of China, many novels describe homosexuality, such as A Dream of Red Mansions, Jin Ping Mei, and even a book called Flower Appreciation, which is totally gay in the pear garden.