![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The consequences were the relative unimportance of prostitution, as men found other outlets for their sexuality, and a much more tolerant, if rarely articulated, attitude towards sexual expression of all kinds. Christian teaching castigated homosexuality, of course, but until 1700 or so, Trumbach suggests, these two morality systems existed side by side, with the official one dictating public and legal utterances even while the other one governed private behaviour. Within this framework, sexual behaviour was regulated by age, and middle-aged men would routinely have slept with adolescent boys. Gender Revolution, Randolph Trumbach reconstructs the worlds of eighteenth-century prostitution. Rather, the dominant sexual pattern was the one that we know existed in ancient Greece, and which Michael Rocke has recently argued also obtained in Renaissance Florence - about half the male population had same-sex experience during adolescence. Sex and the Gender Revolution, Volume 1 GRIN Verlag. That thesis is this: until about 1700, in London but probably also throughout Europe, neither effeminate, exclusive homosexuality, nor obligate heterosexuality, existed. ![]()
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