Regular readers will know that statistics are never the first place I turn when thinking about or trying to understand some aspect of sexuality. But since 2006 I have been compiling a yearly list of the most frequently accessed sex questions on About.com It’s a completely unscientific sample, and may […]
Year: 2015
The Gay Of The Samurai All About Homosexuality, Buddhist Monks, Samurai, and The Tokugawa Middle Class by Koichi As it turns out, pre-modern Japan was exceptionally accepting, even encouraging, of male homosexuality and bisexuality. Much like that time we found out that bushido is actually modern-day made-up bullshit, this might surprise you. […]
Maika Elan, spent a year photographing Vietnam’s gay couples in their most intimate moments The Interview: Gay people in Vietnam. Why is that an important enough subject to photograph so extensively? Well, the thing is people in Vietnam there is talk of legalising gay marriage. This would make Vietnam the […]
“The pederastic form of same-sex relationships was a prominent feature of ancient Greece and Roman civilization. In these civilizations, male erotic interest in persons of the same sex was generally assumed to be universally present and psychologically normal, but not exclusive.” (Greenberg,Transformations of Homosexuality-Based Classifications, p. 181 in The Gender/Sexuality Reader Culture, History, Politico Economy, editors Roger N. Lancaster and Micaela di Leonardo.)
“Les créateurs de l’irréel” – “The creators of the unreal” The founder of Les Farfadais are the Haffner brothers. One of them is the gymnast Stéphane Haffner of French and Italian origin. Stéphane explains how he met with Emiliano Simeoni: “In 2000, we both, were working on a TV program […]
Vietnam “Next Top Model 2015”
Full Name: Theodore Patrick Hall Birth date: 12.02.88 Birthplace: Hong Kong Reside: Canada Height: 6’2″ | 185cm Chest: 39″ | 99cm Waist: 30″ | 76cm Shoe: 11.5 UK | 45 EU Hair: Brown Eyes: Brown Agencies: LONDON: FM MODEL AGENCY NEW YORK: NEW YORK MODELS PARIS: MAJOR MODELS PARIS MILAN: […]
Dealing with Sexual Regret Cory Silverberg Sexuality Expert Do any of these situations sound familiar: You had sex with an ex. You didn’t go home with someone you always lusted after. You shared a sexual secret with someone who, it turns out, didn’t deserve your trust. According to all your […]
Ho Vinh Khoa Actor Born: October 25, 1988 Movies: Lost in Paradise
Homosexuality in Ancient Greece Section One Homosexuality in Ancient Greece will be comprised of three sections. They will deal with Greek sexuality in general, adult homosexual activity, pederasty and compares our modern western society to that of ancient Greece. The third section deals with Greek Philosophers and Greek laws pertaining […]
Homosexuality as a Sin Same-sex sexual acts have a history; today they are called “homosexuality”. Before ‘homosexuality” they were called “sodomy”. In England during the reign of King Henry VIII “sodomy” became a civil offense with the passage of the buggery Act of 1533. Many authors have claimed that the […]
Homosexuality as a Disease The transition from a religious model to a medical model began in the eighteen century, continued through the nineteen century, and finally took firm hold during in the first half of the twentieth century. Abnormal sexuality or sexual deviance was no longer understood primarily in […]
Homosexuality as a Political Identity “In short, the gay lifestyle – if such a chaos can, after all, legitimately be called a lifestyle – it just doesn’t work: it doesn’t serve the two functions for which all social framework evolve: to constrain people’s natural impulses to behave badly and to […]
Homosexuality as a Crime http://www.banap.net/spip.php?article119 In this series, “Homosexuality as a:” the majority of the information and sources are from England. In the past few years coming from England has been a significant interest in masculinity, resulting in the publication of numerous articles and books, which includes new historical information […]
Male prostitution is hardly discussed in the Netherlands, but it is out there – in every province, region and city. It is therefore important to raise awareness about the existence of these boys and men. During our quest to paint a picture of male prostitution in the country, we were often surprised by the helpfulness of the community even while being shocked about some of the details of the business.
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Aarif Rahman is also known as Aarif Lee, and his Chinese name 李治廷 is pronounced as Li Zhi Ting. His multi-ethnic heritage comes from his father, a Malaysian of Arabic, Malay and Chinese ancestry, and his mother, a Hong Kong Chinese. Aarif was born in Hong Kong, and his citizenship […]
Touko Laaksonen (8 May 1920 – 7 November 1991), best known by his pseudonym Tom of Finland, was a Finnish artist notable for his stylized homoerotic fetish art and his influence on late twentieth century gay culture. He has been called the “most influential creator of gay pornographic images” by […]
George Quaintance (June 3, 1902 – November 8, 1957) was a gay American artist, famous for his “idealized, strongly homoerotic” depictions of men in mid-20th-century physique magazines. Using historical settings to justify the nudity or distance the subjects from modern society, his art featured idealized muscular, semi-nude or nude male […]
Matthew Wayne “Matt” Shepard (December 1, 1976 – October 12, 1998) was an American student at the University of Wyoming who was beaten, tortured and left to die near Laramie, Wyoming on the night of October 6, 1998, and died six days later at Poudre Valley Hospital in Fort Collins, Colorado, […]
Boselli, aged 27, was branded the “world’s sexiest maths teacher” earlier this year by newspapers and magazines around the world after one of his students at University College London posted on social media that he was also a successful model, and the post went viral. Since then Boselli – a […]
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