I was going to post about (and still am), my glee at finding a reference to asexuality in 'Homophobia: A History' by Byrne Fone. While discussing the ancient Greeks and Romans, he describes Lucian of Samosata's play the 'Erotes', which describes four men. Theomnestus likes men and women, Charicles likes the ladies and is described by as possibly ( Read more... )

It's a very interesting and crushingly depressing book. I feel very lucky to be alive today.

Like all sensible readers of a big fat textbook, I started in the middle with the end of the renaissance, and I'm nearing the end of the Victorian era.

Some fun facts about the treatment of 'convicted sodomites' 
Henry the 8th made sodomy a secular rather than ( Read more... )