Burning Lesbians September 6, 2013
Author: Beach Combing | in : Medieval, Modern
Christianity has never been particularly friendly to homosexuality, but from the thirteenth century things started to heat up immensely. There were some footling differences between sodomy and other ‘sex crimes’, but if a man was accused of having sex with a man in any form then there was an excellent chance that both would […]
Victorian Lesbian Cobblers August 26, 2013
Author: Beach Combing | in : Contemporary, Modern
A week in which this blogger has had a thrilling time reading works on the history of lesbianism: some surprisingly good books out there. Anyway, one of the most fascinating facts about sexuality in western Europe and later European colonies is that way that there was one standard for male homosexuality and quite another for […]
