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title: "Love Stories: Sex between Men before Homosexuality 1st Edition"
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# Love Stories: Sex between Men before Homosexuality 1st Edition

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    Fascinating history
  

*by K***L on Reviewed in the United States on November 11, 2002*

Jonathan Katz, who by now is one of the most respected scholars of gay history, has written another telling volume about same-sex love in America. This one centers around the nineteenth century. Well-known names appear in these pages, principally the towering figure of poet Walt Whitman, who not only espoused the ideal of love between men in his own life, but was a mentor and inspirational figure to others struggling with their desires for those of their own gender.Katz's overall point is that one cannot judge the sexual behavior of men of the past by today's standards and attitudes--for much of the nineteenth century, there existed no sharp dichotomy between man-woman (heterosexual) and man-man or woman-woman (homosexual) behavior. Rather, distinctions were made between _types_ of love, spiritual as opposed to carnal, and _types_ of erotic behavior, procreative as opposed to non-procreative. Even among acts judged early on to be immoral or wrong, some were more wrong than others--oral copulation for a long time was not regarded with the same revulsion as other penetrative acts, for example. Having delineated these basic arguments, Katz then tells the stories of individual men and specific incidents (trials, arrests, news reports, et al.) against this background, bringing a historical perspective of unusual lucidity to all of these disparate tales.Although he does not specifically attempt to tie his history toward attitudes and behavior of the present day, one of the beneficial effects of Katz's study is that the careful reader can discern where the frequently virulent prejudices against gays and lesbians that remain today got their start. The fact that many of these once did NOT exist, moreover, gives hope for the future. This is an unusual, valuable, candid and ultimately very moving chronicle.

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    Stunningly Beautiful, Bittersweet, and Moving
  

*by R***F on Reviewed in the United States on December 31, 2020*

An amazing collection of photos from 1850 through 1950.  You can see the joy and love in each photo, but also sense the undercurrent of danger and loss. I wanted to know the back story on each and every image. This is an important book.

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    This book focuses mainly on Walt Whitman and men he knew.
  

*by C***E on Reviewed in the United States on December 19, 2020*

Was hoping for a variety stories about about a variety of people. Not so.Oh well...

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