Section 25 of the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 10. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 10 by Anonymous, translated by Richard Francis Burton. Social Condition, C. Pornography. Here it will be advisable to supplement what was said in my foreword concerning the Terpel Oquium of the Nights. Readers who have perused the ten volumes will probably agree with me that the naive indecencies of the text are rather Gaudi's suri than Purien's, and, when delivered with mirth and humor, they are rather the excrements of wit than designed for debauching the mind. Indecided and indelicate with infantile plainness, even gross and, at times, nasty in their terrible frankness, they cannot be accused of corrupting suggestiveness or subtle insinuation of vicious sentiment. There's is a coarseness of language, not of idea. They are indecent, not depraved. And the pure and perfect naturalness of their nudity seems almost to purify it, showing that the matter is rather of manners than of morals. Such throughout the East is the language of every man, woman, and child, from prince to peasant, from matron to prostitute. All are as the naive French traveller said of the Japanese. See Grosier Kilnay's event, nomer les chaussées qu'est parlure nom. This primitive stage of language, sufficed to draw from Lane and Burkhart, strictures upon the, quote, most immodest freedom of conversation in Egypt, end, quote, where, as all the world over, there are three several stages for names of things and acts sensual. First we have the mo-crew, the popular term, soon followed by the technical and scientific, and lastly the literary or figurative nomenclature, which is often much more immoral because more attractive, suggestive, and seductive than the raw word. And let me observe that the highest civilization is now returning to the language of nature. In La Glue of Monsieur J. Ritchapine, a triumph of the realistic school, we find such archaic expressions as la pétée, poutaine, fauteuil à la cix-quatre-dix, une facetuse petardée, tu t'es fauteuil, etc., et vilaine bugrée, and so forth. To those critics who complain of these raw vulgarisms and purile indecencies in the nights, I can reply only by quoting the words said to have been said by Dr. Johnson to the lady who complained of the naughty words in his dictionary. Quote, you must have been looking for them, madame, end quote. But I repeat, there is another element in the nights, and that is one of absolute obscenity utterly repugnant to English readers, even the least prudish. It is chiefly connected with what our neighbors call la vice contre nature, as if anything can be contrary to nature, which includes all things. Upon this subject I must offer details, as it does not enter into my plan to ignore any theme which is interesting to the Orientalist and the Anthropologist. And they, me thinks, do abundant harm, who, for shame or disgust, would suppress the very mention of such matters. In order to combat a great and growing evil deadly to the birth-rate, the mainstay of national prosperity, the first requisite is careful study. As Albert Bostot, Bishop of Ratesbon, rightly says, Quia malum non evitatum nisi cognitum ideo necesse est cognoscere in mundisium coitis et multa alla chi docentur in istolibro. Equally true are Professor Manté Zaga's words, Cacher la plateis de cur humain au nom de la padur, Se nesto contrae, quipocros si upur. The late Mr. Groot had reason to lament that when describing such institutions as the far famed of Thebes, the sacred band annihilated at Chironia, he was compelled to a reticence which permitted him to touch only the surface of the subject. This was inevitable under the present rule of Kant in a book intended for the public. But the same does not apply to my version of the knights, and I now proceed to discuss the matter's serios amant, onet amant, historique amant, to show it in decent nudity, not in suggestive fig leaf or field de vin. End of section 25. Section 26 of the Book of the Thousand Knights and a Knight, volume 10. This is a LibriVox recording, all LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. The Book of the Thousand Knights and a Knight, volume 10 by Anonymous, translated by Richard Francis Burton. Section 26, Social Condition D, Pederasty, Part 1. The Exacralibus Familia Pathicorum first came before me by a chance of earlier life. In 1845, when Sir Charles Napier had conquered and annexed Sind, despite a fraction mostly vino, which sought favor with the now defunct Court of Directors to the Honorable East India Company, the veteran began to consider his conquest with a curious eye. It was reported to him that Karachi, a townlet of some 2,000 souls and distant not more than a mile from camp, supported no less than three lupinage or borders in which not women but boys and eunuchs, the former demanding nearly a double price, lay for hire. Being then the only British officer who could speak Sindy, I was asked indirectly to make inquiries and to report upon the subject, and I undertook the task on express condition that my report should not be forwarded to the Bombay government, from whom supporters of the conqueror's policy could expect scant favor, mercy, or justice. Accompanied by a manchi, Merse Mohamed Hossain of Shiraz and habited as a merchant Muraza Abdullah the Bushiri, passed many an evening in the townlet, visited all the porneia, and obtained the fullest details which were duly dispatched to the government house. But the devil's brother presently quitted Sind leaving in his office my unfortunate official. This found its way with sundry other reports to Bombay and produced the expected result. A friend and secretariat informed me that my summary dismissal from the service had been formally proposed by one of Sir Charles Napier's successors, whose decease compels me to parque de sepoltil, but this excess of outrage modesty was not allowed. Subsequent inquiries in many indistint countries enabled me to arrive at the following conclusions. 1. There exists what I shall call a Sotatic zone, bounded westwards by the northern shores of the Mediterranean, northern latitude 43, and by the southern, northern latitude 30. Thus, the depth would be 780-800 miles, including Meridional, France, the Iberian Peninsula, Italy, and Greece, with the coast regions of Africa from Morocco to Egypt. 2. Running eastward, the Sotatic zone narrows, embracing Asia Minor, Mesopotamia, and Chaldea, Afghanistan, Sind, the Punjab, and Kashmir. 3. In Indochina, the belt begins to broaden, enfolding China, Japan, and Turkestan. 4. It then embraces the South Sea Islands in the New World where, at the time of its discovery, Sotatic love was, with some exceptions, an established racial institution. 5. Within the Sotatic zone, the vice is popular and endemic, held at the worst to be a mere peccadillo, whilst the races to the north and south of the limits here defined practice it only sporadically amid the opprobrium of their fellows who, as a rule, are physically incapable of performing the operation and look upon it with the liveliest disgust. Before entering into topographical details concerning peteresty, which I hold to be geographical and climatic, not racial, I must offer a few considerations of its cause and origin. We must not forget that the love of boys has its noble, sentimental side. The Platonists and Peoples of the Academy, followed by the Sufis or Muslim Gnostics, held such affection pura as ardent to the Bue Ideale, which united in the man's soul the creature with the Creator. Professing to regard youths as the most cleanly and beautiful objects in this phenomenal world, they declared that by loving and extolling the Chef du Oeuvre, corporeal and intellectual of the Demerugus, disinterestedly and without any admixture of carnal sensuality, they are paying the most fervent adoration to the calsa calcins. They add that such affection, patting as it does the love of women, is far less selfish than fondness for and admiration of the other sex, which however innocent always suggests sexuality. And Easterners add that the devotion of the moth to the taper is purer and more fervent than the bull bull's love for the rose. Almost the Greeks of the best ages, the system of boy favourites was advocated on considerations of morals and politics. The lover undertook the education of the beloved through precept and example, while the two were conjoined by a tie stricter than the fraternal. Heronimus, the parapetetic, strongly advocated it because the vigorous disposition of youths and the confidence engendered by their association often led to the overthrow of tyrannies. These declared that, quote, a most valiant army might be composed of boys and their lovers, for that of all men they would be most ashamed to desert one another. End quote. And even Virgil, despite the foul flavour of formosum pastor cordon, could write, nisis amore pio pueri. The only physical cause for the practice which suggests itself to me, and that must be owned to be purely conjectural, is that within the sotatic zone there is a blending of the masculine and female temperaments, a crassus which elsewhere occurs only sporadically, hence the male feminisme whereby the man becomes patiens as well as agens, and the woman etribade, a votary of Mascula Sappho, queen of frictrices or rubbers. Professor Amantangasa claims to have discovered the cause of this pathological love, this perversion of the erotic sense, one of the marvellous lists of amorous vagaries which deserve not prosecution but the pitiful care of the physician and the study of the psychologist. According to him the nerves of the rectum and the genitalia, in all cases closely connected, are abnormally so in the pathic who obtains by intromission the venereal orgasm, which is usually sought through the sexual organs. So amongst women there are treabads who can procure no pleasure except by foreign objects introduced a posteriori, hence his three-fold distribution of sodomy, one paraphiric or anatomical, caused by an unusual distribution of the nerves in their hyperisthasia, two luxurious with lava tergo, is preferred on account of the narrowness of the passage, and three, the psychical. But this is evidently superficial, the question is what causes this neuropathy, this abnormal distribution and condition of the nerves. Because Prince Bismarck finds a moral difference between the male and female races of history, so I suspect a mixed physical temperament affected by the manifold subtle influences massed together in the world climate. Something of the kind is necessary to explain the fact of this pathological love, extending over the greater portion of the habitable world without any apparent connection of race or media from the polished Greek to the cannibal tupi of the Brazil. What Whitman speaks to the ashengray face of onanists, the faded colors, the puffy features and the unwholesome complexion of the professed pederist with his peculiar cathartic expression indescribable but once seen, never forgotten, stamped the breed, and Dr. G. Adolf is justified in declaring, quote, all I give one is pandyrastin, erkenyim sich enander schnell, oft mit einen dick, end quote. This has nothing in common with the feminism which betrays itself in the pathic by womanly gait, regard, and gesture. It is something sui generic, and the same may be said of the color and look of the young priests who honestly refrain from women and their substitutes. Dr. Tardjou in his well-known work, etude merico regale sulle atenta aux murs. In Dr. Adolf, note a peculiar infundibulifor disposition of the after in a smoothness and want of folds even before any abuse has taken place, together with special forms of the male organs and confirmed pederists. But these observations have been rejected by Casper, Hoffman, Ruerundell, and Dr. John H. Henry Coutangene. Note Sir Lassodomy Lyon 1880, and it is a medical question whose discussion would here be out of place. The origin of pederasty, as lost in the night of ages, but it's historique, has been carefully tracked by many writers, especially Vérez, Rosenbaum, and M. H. E. Meyer. The ancient Greeks who, like the modern Germans, invented nothing but were great improvers of what other races invented attributed the formal apostolate of soritism to Orpheus, whose stigma was worn by the Thracian women. Euripides' proposed Laos, father of Oedipus, as the inaugurator, whereas Timaeus, declared that the fashion of making favorites of boys, was introduced into Greece from Crete, for Malthusian reasons said Aristotle. Politics, Book II, line 10, attributing it to Minas, Herodotus, however knew far better, having discovered it, too, circa 80, that the Orphic and Bacchic rights were originally Egyptian, but the father of history was a traveler and an analyst rather than an archaeologist, and he tripped in the following passage, one circa 135, quote, as soon as they, the Persians here of any luxury, they instantly make it their own, and hence, among other matters, they have learned from the Hellens a passion for boys, end quote, quote, unnatural lust, end quote, says modest Rawlinson. Plutarch, de malignitate Herodotii, 13, asserts with much more probability that the Persians used eunuch boys according to the most Graikai, long before they had seen the Gritian main. On the holy books of the Hellenes, Homer and Hesiod, dealing with the heroic ages, there is no trace of pedorasty, although in a long subsequent generation, Lucian suspected Achilles and Petrocholus as he did arrestes in Palares, Theseus, and Pyrrhaethus. Homer's praises of beauty are reserved for the feminines, especially his favorite Helen, but the Dorians of Crete seem to have commended the abuse to Athens and Sparta, and subsequently imported it into Quarentium, Aggregentium, and other colonies, Ephoris and Thrabel, 10, 4, 21, gives a curious account of the violent abduction of beloved boys by the lover, of the obligations of the ravager to the favorite, and of the marriage ceremonies which lasted two months, see also Plato, laws 1, circa 8, Ceraeus, and Aeneid, 10, 325, informs us, quote, de critensibus a chepemus, cod in amore puerorum, in temperantes cuerant, cod postia in lacones et intotium graicum franzlatum est, end quote, de critensibus, and afterward their apt peoples, the Chalcadidians, had it disreputable for a beautiful boy to lack a lover, hence Zeus, the national Doric god of Crete, loved Genomede, Apollo, another Dorian duty, loved Hyacinth, and Hercules, a Doric hero who grew to be a sun god, loved Hylas, and a host of others. Thus Crete sanctified the practice by the examples of the gods and demigods, but when legislation came, the subject had qualified itself for legal limitation, and as such was undertaken by Lycurgus and Solon according to Xenophon, Blackedemonian's book 2, 13, who draws a broad distinction between the honest-level boys and dishonest Greek lust. They both approved of pure pedorastia, like that of Harmonius and Aurestogeton, but forbade it with seviles, because degrading into a free man, hence the level boys was spoken of like that of women, Plato, Thaedrus, Republica, 6, circa 19, Xenophon, Symposium, 4, 10, example quote, there was once a boy or rather a youth of exceeding beauty, and he had very many lovers, end quote. This is the language of Hapis, and Xaidi, Aesclus, Sophocles, and Euripides were allowed to introduce it upon the stage for, quote, many men were as fond of having boys for their favorites as women for their mistresses, and this was a frequent fashion in many well-regulated cities of Greece, end quote. Poets like Alcaius, Anacreon, Agathon, and Pindar affected it, and Theogonus sang of a, quote, beautiful boy in the flower of his youth, end quote. The statesmen Aristides and Themistocles quarreled over Stelaeus of Theos, and Pesistratus loved Charmus, who first built an altar to Poerile Eros, while Charmus loved Hipeas, son of Pesistratus. De most ines, the order took into keeping a youth called Gnassion, greatly to the indignation of his wife, Xanophon loved Clineas, and Altilaecus, Aristotle, Hermaeus, Theodectes, and others, Empedocles, Palsanias, Epicurus, Pythocles, Aristopus, Euthysides, and Zeno, with histoics, had a philosophic disregard for women, affecting only Perorastia, a man in Athenaius for circa 40, left in his will that certain youths he had loved should fight like gladiators at his funeral, and Charles Claes and Lucien abuses Calicratilas for his love of sterile pleasures. Lastly, there was a notable affair of Alcibiades and Socrates, the Sanctus Paderasta, being violumente subcon, giulama subcine, one under the mantle, non sempercine plaga abeo surrexit, Athenaius, 5 circa 13. Declares that Plato represents Socrates as absolutely intoxicated with his passion for Alcibiades, the ancients seemed to have held the connection impure or juvenile would not have written inter Socrates' notissima fossa senailos, followed by Firmicus 714, who speaks of Sacriticii Paedicones. It is the modern fashion to doubt the peteresty of the master of Hellenic Sophrosine, the Christian before Christianity, but such a worldwide term as Sacritic love can hardly be explained by the Lucas Arnon Lucchendo theory. We are overtapped to apply our 19th century prejudices and preposessions to the morality of the ancient Greeks who would have specimened such squeamishness and addicts salt. The Spartans, according to Agnon the academic confirmed by Plato, Plutarch and Cicero, treated boys and girls in the same way before marriage, hence juvenile 11173, used Lachodimonius for apathic, and other writers apply it to a tree bade. After the Peloponnesian War, which ended in BC 404, the U.S. became merged in the abuse. Yet some purity must have survived even amongst the Botians who produced the famous Narcissus, described by Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book III, 339, Multi-Illium Eumonnes, Multi-Cupere Puellae, Nulli-Illium Eumonnes, Nulli-Tetegere Puellae. For Epaminondas, whose name is mentioned with three beloveds, established the Holy Regiment composed of mutual lovers, testifying the majestity of Eros and preferring to a discredible life of a glorious death. Philip's redactions on the fatal field of Charonea form their finished epithaph. At last, the Athenians, according to Isenies, officially punished Tharmy with death, but the threat did not abolish bordells of boys like those of Karachi, the pornea or porno bosquea, where slaves in Pueri Venales stood, as the term was, near Pnix, the city walls in a certain power, also about Lecobetis, and paid a fixed tax to the state. The pleasures of society and civilized Greece seemed to have been sought chiefly in the heresies of love, Heteriasis and Sarodism. It is calculated that the French of the 16th century have 400 names for the parts genital and 300 for their use in Caution. Their great vocabulary is not less copious, and some of its petrastic terms, of which Maier gives nearly a hundred, and its nomenclature of pathologic love are curious and picturesque enough to merit quotation. To live the life of Abron, the Argyve, i.e. that of a Pathic or passive lover, the Agathonian song, Aestrogia, equals Dysonops love, also called Acolasia, Acracia, Areno Coytia, etc., Alcinoan youths or non-conformists, Encurte, Geranda, plus Aico, Operate, Juventus, Alegomenos, the unspeakable, as the pedarist, was termed by the council of Anzaira, also the Agrios, Apolaustos, and Acolastos, Androgyny, of whom Ansonius wrote epigram 68, 15, e che egos un factis femina di puerro, badas in badizene equals clunes turquins, also battalos equals catamite, catapagos, catapagosine equals puerraris, and catadactilium, from dactilium, the ring, used in the sense of neurosis, but applied to the corollarium puerrilli, Senaidos, Senaidos, the active lover derived either from his kinetics or quasi, equals dogmaurist, also spatolo-kenaidos, laschivia fluens equals a fair genemid, Chalke de Sare, Chalke de Sena, from Chalkes in Yubia, a city famed for love a posteriori, mostly applied to le lechement de testicle by children, clasomenae equals the buttocks, also a sotatic disease, so called from the Ionian city, devoted to Auerse Wenus, also used of apathic, et tergo femina pube vir est, embasio coitas, probably a link boy at marriages, also a nightcap drunk before bed, and lastly in an effeminate, one who perambulawit omnium cubilia catalis, si encobrieses upon the embasquite and satiracan, chapter four, epipèdeus, the carnal assault, Gaetan, literally the neighbor, the beloved of Encolpes, which has produced the French juton, equals bardacae, Italian bardacassia, from the Arab bardage, a captive slave, the augmented form is polygaiton, epipèdeus, tyrniove, when the patient, woman or boy, mounts the agent, Aristophanes, Vespasian, 502, so also cletazine, equals peccare supurne, or equium agitere supurnum of horus, moxtheria, depravity with boys, padica, whence padicare active and padicari passive, so in the latin poet Penelopeis primum didonis prima secuatur et primum cani selaba prima remi, pathacos, pathacos, a passive like malacos, malacos molis vasculius, malachio trimalchio, petronis, malta, malta, and in horus, satiracan, book two, line 25, malthinius tunicius de missus ambulat, praxis equals the malpractice, pagissima equals bardacari, because most actives end within the nates, being too much excited for further intermission, finicissare, Greek, di cunellingere in tempore menstruum, cui ahoguitium in finica generate solebat, oso erumere in miel, ficissendare denot actum per canes commissium quando lambont cunos, well testiculos, suitones, also applied to pollution of childhood, samuriam flores, raznus proverbs 23, alluding to the androgenic prostitutions of semos, sifinissare, Greek from sifonis, hod sifonte island equals digito podicem fodere a prurigenimum restinguendam ses ermes si merbiu eratica biblion annoscopii, thrypsis equals the rubbing, perastia hadengris I have shown its noblon ideal side, Rome however borrowed her malpractices like her religion and polity from those ultramaterial trashkins and debauched with a brazen face, even under the republic plautis, casina buctu line 21, makes one of his characters exclaim in an atmos sang Freud, quote, ugrot te amatur apagete adorso meo, end quote, with increased luxury the evil guru in living notices, 39, 13, at the bacchanalia plura virorum inter sese quam feminarum stupra, there were individual protests, for example, sq febius, baximilius serwinilanius, conso uc 612, punished his son for dubia castitas, and a private soldier, si plotius, killed his military tribune q lucius for unchaste proposals, the lex scantinia, scatinia, popularly derived from the scantinius the tribune and of doubtful date bc 226, attempted to abate the scandal by fine and the lex julia by death, but they were trifling obstacles to the flood of infamy which surged in with the empire, no class seems then to have disdained these sterile pleasures, l'onnia tashua pa alor, aset estes et demo unod d'athamii, comme un païs de crescente, s'esbeo under anacrine. The great Caesar, the synodius carus of catalis, was the husband of all the wives and the wife of all the husbands in Rome, Suetonius chapter 3, and his soldier sang and his praise, Golius Caesar, subeget Nicomendes Caesarum, Suetonius Cius 69, whence his sobriquette fornix bethynicus, of Augustus the people chanted, Videsne ut synodus orbum digito temperat, Tiberus with his pisiscoli and Gregus extolertorum, invented the symplegium or nexus of serrari, agentes et patientes, in which the sphynthriae, literally women's bracelets, were connected in a chain by the bond of flesh, Seneca questiones naturales. Of this refinement, which in the earlier part of the 19th century was renewed by sundry englishmen at Naples, Alsonius wrote epigram 119, 1, pres uno electo stuprim duo perpettion tur, and Marshall had said 1243, Alsonius recounts of Caligula, he so lost patience that he forcibly entered the priest and lepidus before the sacrifice was completed. The beautiful Nero was formally married to Pythagoras or Dorithforos, and afterwards took to wife Spores, who was first subjected to castration of a peculiar fashion, who was then named Serena after the deceased spouse and claimed queenly honors. The Othones or Trajanipathiki were famed, the great Hadrian openly loved Antonius, and the wild debaucheries of Helio Galbus seemed only to have amused instead of disgusting the Romans. Uranopolis allowed public lupinaria, where adults in Meritori who began their careers early as seven years stood for hire. The inmates of these calponi were sleeved tunics and dalmatics like women. As in modern Egypt, pathic boys, we learn from Cantalus haunted the public baths. Debacis had signals like freemasons, whereby they recognized one another. The Greek skimmat theme was made by closing the hand to represent the scrotum and raising the middle finger as if to feel whether a hand had eggs, that they see the bullet and loof. Hence the Athenians called a catpagan, or sarmite, in the Romans' digitus impuchidus, or infamous the medical finger of Rabeleis and the shiro mantis. Another sign was to scratch the head with a minimus, digitulo caput scapere iuinis 9.133. The prostitution of boys was first forbidden by Domitian, but St. Paul of Greek had formally expressed his abomination of Levis, Romans 1.26. 1 Corinthians 6.8. And we may agree with Grotius de Veritas 2.13. That early Christianity did much to suppress it. At last the emperor Theodosius punished it with fire as a profanation, because sacrosanctum ese debetur hospitum virilis animae. In the pagan days of imperial Rome, her literature makes no difference between boy and girl. Horace naively says, Satiracan, book 2, line 118, ansella autuerna es preis do puer, and with hemlet, but in a dishonest sense, man delights menat, nor women neither. Similarly, the Spaniard Marshal, who is a mind of such pederastic allusions, 1146, si we pueri arrestit si we puella tibi. That marvelous Satiracan, which unites the wit of moleire, with the duvarteries of Pieron, whilst the writer has been described like rabalais as porissimus in impuritate, is a kind of triumph of pederasty. Geton, the hero, a handsome, curly-pated, hobbly dehoi of 17, with his calenneri, and weedling tongue is courted, like one of the sequur sextus. His lovers are inordinately jealous of him, and his desertion leaves deep scars upon the heart. But known dialogue between man and wife in extremis could be more pathetic than in the scene, where shiprock is imminent, elsewhere everyone seems to attempt his neighbor. A man alte succintus assails assaltos, likeus that tartine skipper, void force inculpius, and so forth. Yet we have the neat and finished touch, Chapter 7. The lamentation was very fine, the dying man having manumitted his slaves, albeit his wife wept, not as though she loved him. How were it had he not behaved to her so well? End quote, erotic Latin glossaries give some 90 words connected with pederasty, and some, which speak with Roman simplicity, are peculiarly expressive. A verse se vina salutes to women being treated as boys, hence Marshall, translated by Piran, addresses mistress Marshall, 10, 44, teque puta cunos yuxor habere duos. The capillatus or comatas is also called calamistratus, the darling curled with Crispin irons, and he is an effeminatus, i.e. qui molie brilla partitur, or a delicatis slave or eunic for the use of the drauques, cueriarus, boilover, or dominus. March 11, 71. The divisor is so called for his practice, he lasts di verde, or caidere, something like Marshall's cacere mentulam, or Juvenile's esternae o curere, cainae, facere wikibus. Juvenile, 7, 238, incestare se inuecum, or mutum facere flautis, trunemus, book 2, line 437, is described as a puerile vais, in which the two take turns to be active and passive. They are also called gemili and fratres, i.e. campares in paillicatium. Elisital libido is preposteri seo postica bueno, and is expressed by the picturesque phrase indicare seo inculware alicum, di palitos di wellere pilos, glaber, laivis, and nates per wellere, are allusions to the sotaric toile. The fine distinction between de metere and di ikere kaput are where they have a glossary, while patica puela, puera, putes, pulipremo, pusio, pagiaca, sacra, quadrupus, sacarbayus, and smendalius, explain themselves. From Rome the practice extended far and wide to our colonies, especially the prowinkia, now called province, Athenaius, 1226, charges the people of Marsilia with, quote, acting like women out of luxury, end quote, and he cites the saying, quote, may you sail to Marsilia, end quote, as if it were another Corinth. Indeed, the whole Celtic race is charged with Levi's by Aristotle, politica book II, line 66, Thrabbo, 4, 199, and Diodorus Siculus, 5, 32. Roman civilization carried pedorasty also to northern Africa, where it took firm root, while the negro and negroid races to the south ignore the erratic perversion, except were imported by foreigners into such kingdoms as Borno and Hausa, and now Morocco, the most proper are notable sodomites, Muslims, even of saintly houses, are permitted openly to keep catamites, nor do their disciplines think worse of their sanctity for such license, in one case the English wife failed to banish from the home that horrid boy, yet pedorasty is forbidden by the Quran, in chapter 4, 20 we read, quote, and if two men among you commit the crime, then punish them both, end quote, the penalty being some hurt or damage by public reproach, insult or scourgy. There are four distinct references to Lot and the sodomites in chapters 7, line 78, 11, lines 77 through 84, 26, 160 to 174, and 29, lines 28 to 35, and the first the prophet commissioned to the people says, quote, proceed ye to a fulsome act wherein no creature hath foregone ye, verily ye come to men in lieu of women lustfully, end quote. We have then an account of the rain which had made an end of the wicked, and this judgment on the cities of the plain is repeated with more detail in the second reference. Here the angels, generally supposed to be three, Gabriel, Michael, and Raphael, appeared to Lot as beautiful youths, a sore temptation to the sinners, and the godly man's arm was straightened concerning his visitors, because he felt unable to protect them from the erotic vagaries of his fellow townsmen, he therefore shut his doors and from behind them argued the matter. Presently the riotous assembly attempted to climb the wall when Gabriel, seeing the distress of his host, smote them on the face with one of his wings, and blinded them so that all moved off crying for aid, and saying that Lot had magicians in his house. Hereupon the cities which they ever existed must have been fellow villages were uplifted. Gabriel thrust his wing under them and raised them so high that the inhabitants of the lower heaven, the lunar sphere, could hear the dogs barking and the cocks crowing. Then came the rain of stones. There were clay pellets baked in hellfire, streaked white and red, or having some mark to distinguish them from the ordinary, and each bearing the name of its destination like the missiles which destroyed the host of Abrahat al-Asram. Lastly the cities were turned upside down and cast upon earth. These circumstantial unfacts are repeated at full length in the other two chapters, but rather as an instance of Allah's power than as a warning against his peteresty, which Muhammad seems to have regarded with philosophic indifference. The general opinion of his followers is that it should be punished like fornication unless the offenders make a public act of penitence. But here, as an adultery, the law is somewhat too clement and will not convict unless four credible witnesses swear to have seen remen re. I have noticed, Volume 1, 211, the vicious opinion that the Jelman or Wulndan, the beautiful boys of paradise, the counterparts of Horus, will be lawful karmites to the true believers in a future state of happiness. The idea is nowhere countenanced in al-Islam, and although I have often heard debauches refer to it, the learned look upon the assertion as scandalous. End of section 26. Section 27 of the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 10. This is a LibriVox recording. A LibriVox recording is on the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Recording by Elsie Selwyn. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 10, by Anonymous. Translated by Richard Francis Burton. Social Condition D. Peteresty, Part 2. As in Morocco, so the vice prevails throughout the old regencies of Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli, and all the cities of the South Mediterranean seaboard, whilst it is unknown to the Nubians, the Berbers, and the wilder tribes dwelling inland. Proceeding eastward, we reach Egypt, that classical region of all abominations, which, marvelous to relate, flourished in closest contact with men leading the purest of lives, models of moderation and morality, of religion and virtue. Amongst the ancient Levis was part and portion of the ritual, and was represented by two male partridges alternatively copulating. Interpretations in Priyapi, Karm, 17. The evil would have gained strength by the invasion of Cambyses, BC 524, whose armies after the victory over Pesim and Itis settled in the Nile Valley and held it, despite sundry revolts, for some hundred and ninety years. During these six generations, the Iranians left their mark upon Lower Egypt, and especially, as the late Rogers Bay proved, upon the fiam, the most ancient delta of the Nile. Nor would the evil be diminished by the Hellenes, who, under Alexander the Great, liberator and savior of Egypt, BC 332, extinguished the native dynasties, the love of the Macedonian for Bagoas, the eunuch being a matter of history. From that time and under the rule of the Potolomies, the morality gradually decayed. The canopic orgies extended into private life, and the debauchery of the men was equaled only by the depravity of the women. Neither Christianity nor Al Islam could affect a change for the better, and social morality seems to have been at its worst during the past century, when Sanini travelled, AD 1717. The French officer, who is thoroughly trustworthy, draws the darkest picture of the widely spread criminality, especially of the bestiality in the sodomy, chapters 15, which formed the, quote, delight of the Egyptians, end quote. During the Napoleonic conquest, Jobare and his letter to General Brewe, page 19, says, Ode and glow Egyptians still chuckle over the tail of Saïd Pasha and Manchur de Mousa Nair, the high-dried and highly respectable consul general for the Netherlands, who was solemnly advised to make the experiment active and passive before offering his opinion upon the subject. In the present age, extensive intercourse with Europeans has produced not a reformation, but a certain retinence amongst the upper classes. They are as vicious as ever, but they do not care for displaying their vices to the eyes of mocking strangers. Syria and Palestine, another ancient focus of abominations, borrowed from Egypt and exaggerated the worship of androgenic and hermaphrodite deities, Plutarch de Iside, notes that the old Nelotes held the moon to be of male-female sex, the men sacrificing to Luna and the women to Lunas. Isis also was a hermaphrodite, the idea being that aether, or air, the lower heavens, was the memstrom of generative nature, and Damascus explained the tenant by the all-fruitful and prolific powers of the atmosphere, hence the fragment attributed to Orpheus, the song of Jupiter, air. All things from Jove descend, Jove was a male, Jove was a deathless bride, for men call air of twofold sex, the Jove. Julius Permicus relates that, quote, the Assyrians and part of the Africans, along the Mediterranean seaboard, hold air to be the chief element and adore its fanciful figure, a magnate figure, consecrated under the name of Juno or the Virgin Venus. Their companies of priests cannot duly serve her unless they effeminate their faces, smooth their skins, and disgrace their masculine sex by feminine ornaments. You may see men in the very temples, amid general groans, and during miserable dalliance and becoming passives like women, Ueros, Mulie, Bria, Patti, and they expose with boasting and ostentation the pollution of the impure and immodest body, end quote. Here we find the religious significance of eunuchry. It was practiced as a religious rite by the Timphanotrabas, or gallus, the castrated votary of Ria, or Bonamater, in Phrygia called Sibili, self-medilated but not in memory of Aetis, and by a host of other creeds. Even Christianity, as sundry texts show, cannot altogether cast out the old possession. Here, too, we have an explanation of satanic love in its second stage, when it became, like cannibalism, a matter of superstition. Assuming a nature-implanted tendency, we see that, like human sacrifice, it was held to be the most acceptable offering to the god, goddess, neorgia, or sacred ceremonies, a something set apart for peculiar worship. Hence in Rome, as in Egypt, the temples of Isis, Inachitos, Limina, Iseacae, Sacraria, Lunae, were centers of Sarmi, and the religious practice was adopted by the grand priestly castes from Mesopotamia to Mexico and Peru. We find the earliest written notices of the vice in the mythical destruction of the Pentapolis, Genesis 19, Sodom, Gomorrah, Amira, the cultivated country, Adama, Zeboem, and Zohar Urbella. The legend has been amply embroidered by the rabbis who made the Sarmites do everything, e.g. if a man were wounded, he was fined for bloodshed and was compelled to fee the offender, and if one cut off the ear of a neighbor's ass, he was condemned to keep the animal-televi-ear grew again. The Jewish doctors declared the people to have been a race of sharpers with rogues from magistrates, and thus they justified the judgment which they read literally. But the traveler cannot accept it. I have carefully examined the lands at the north and at the south of that most beautiful lake, the so-called Dead Sea, whose tranquil loveliness, backed by the grand plateau of Moab, is an object of admiration to all safe patients suffering from the strange disease, quote, holy land on the brain, end quote. But I found no traces of craters in a neighborhood, no sands of volcanism, no remains of meteoric stones, the asphalt which named the water is mineralized vegetable washed out of the limestones, and the sulfur and salt are brought down by the Jordan into a lake without issue. I must therefore look upon the history as a myth which may have served as a double purpose. The first would be to deter the Jew from the Malthusian practice of his pagan predecessors, upon whom Obliqui was thus cast, as far resembling the scandalous and absurd legend which explains the names of the children of Lot by Fini and Thamma as Moab, the water or semen of the father, and Amen as mother's son that is bastard. The fable would also account for the abnormal fissure containing the lower Jordan and the Dead Sea, which the later R.I. Murchison used wrong-headedly to call a, quote, volcano of depression, end quote. This geological feature that cuts off the river basin from its natural outlet, the Gulf of Eloth, Akbar, must date from myriads of years before they were, quote, cities of the plains, end quote. But the main object of the ancient logover, Osarsip Moses or the Mossadai, was doubtless to discountence of perversion prejudicial to the increase of population, and he speaks with no uncertain voice, who so layeth with a beast shall surely be put to death Exodus 2219. If a man lie with mankind as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination, they shall surely be put to death, their blood shall be upon them. Leviticus 2013, where verses 15 through 16 threaten with death men and women who live with beasts. Again, there shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a Sodomite of the sons of Israel. Deuteronomy 225, the old commentators on the Sodom myth are most unsatisfactory, e.g. Parkhurst S.V. Kadesh, quote, from hence we may observe the peculiar propriety of this punishment of Sodom and the neighboring cities. By their Sodom medical impurities they meant to acknowledge the heavens as the cause of fruitfulness independently upon and in opposition to Jehovah, therefore Jehovah by reigning upon them that junior showers but brimstone from heaven, not only destroyed the inhabitants but also changed all that country, which was before as the Garden of God into brimstone and salt that is not sown nor bareth, neither any grass groweth therein, end quote. It must be owned that to this pentapolis was dealt very hard measure for religiously and diligently practicing a popular rite, which a host of cities even in the present day as Naples and Shiraz, to mention no others, affect for simple luxury and affect with impunity. The myth may probably reduce itself to very small proportions, a few fellow villages destroyed by a storm like that which drove Brennes from Delphi. The Hebrews entering Syria found it religionized by Assyria and Babylonia, whence Akkadian Ishtar had passed west and become Ashtorith, Ashtaroth or Ashira, the Anaitis of Armenia, the Phoenician Astarte and the Greek Aphrodite, the great Moon Goddess who was Queen of Heaven and Love. In another phase she was Venus Milita, the Procreatrix, and Kaldiak Maoludata and an Arabic Moa Walidah, she who bringeth forth. She was worshipped by men habited as women and vice versa, for which reason in the Torah, Deuteronomy 25, the sexes are forbidden to change dress, the male prostitutes were called Kadesh the Holy, the women being Kadeshah, and doubtless gave themselves up to great excesses, Yusabayas de Wita Constantine III, circa 55, describes a school of impurity at Aphak where women and quote, men who were not men, and quote, practiced all manner of abominations in honor of the demon Venus. Here the Phrygian symbolism of Covellian Attis had become the Syrian Bal Thomas and Astarte and the Grecian Dionia and Adonis, the anthropomorphic forms of the two greater lights. The site now Wadi al-Athak on the route from Beirut to the Cedars is a glen of wild and wondrous beauty, fitting framework for the loves of goddess and demigod, and the ruins of the temple destroyed by Constantine contrast with nature's work, the glorious fountain Splendidior Withrow, which feeds the river Ibrahim and still at times Adonis runs purple to the sea. The Phoenicians spread this androgenic worship over Greece. We find that consecrated servants and votaries of Corinthian Aphrodite called Herod Daule, Strabo, 8, 6, who aided the 10,000 courtesans and gracing the Venus temple. From this excessive luxury arose the proverb popularized by Horace. One of the headquarters of the cult was Cyprus, where as Cerewius relates, Ad Aeneid, to 632, stood the simulacra of a bearded Aphrodite, with feminine body and costume, septored and mitered like a man. The sexes when worshiping it exchanged habits, and here the virginity was offered in sacrifice. Herodotus 1, circa 199, describes this defloration at Babylon, but sees only the shameful part of the custom, which was a mere consecration of a tribal right. Everywhere girls before marriage belong either to the father or to the clan, and thus the maiden paid the debt due to the public before becoming private property as a wife. The same usage prevailed in ancient Armenia in parts of Ethiopia, and Herodotus tells us that a practice very much like the Babylonian, quote, is found also in certain parts of the island of Cyprus, end quote. It is noticed by Justin, 18, circa 5, and probably explains the quote Sucath Benoth, end quote, or damsels booths, which the Babylonians, bans, planted to the cities of Samaria. The juniors seemed very successful to have copied the abominations of their pagan neighbors, even in the matter of the dog, and the reign of wicked Rehoboam, BC 975, quote, there were also sodomites in the land, and they did according to all the abominations of the nations, which the Lord cast out before the children of Israel, end quote. First Kings, 1420. The scandal was abated by zealous King Asa, BC 958, whose grandmother was High Priestess of Priapus, Pringpeps, and Sacris Priapi. He took away the sodomites out of the land, First Kings, 1512. Yet the prophets were loud in their complaints, especially the so-called Isaiah, BC 760, quote, except the Lord of Hosts had left to us a very small remnant. We should not have been a sodom, end quote, 19, and strong measures were required from good King Josiah, BC 641, who, amongst other things, quote, break down the houses of the sodomites that were by the house of the Lord, where the women wove hangings for the grove, end quote. Second Kings, 237. The bordells of boys, Pueris Allianus, ad High Soerunt, appear to have been near the temple. Syria has not forgotten her old praxis. At Damascus, I found some noteworthy cases amongst the religious of the great Amawi mosque. As for the juices, we have Burkhard's authority, travels in Syria, etc. Page 202, quote, unnatural propensities are very common amongst them, end quote. The satanic zone covers the whole of Asia Minor and Mesopotamia, now occupied by the, quote, unspeakable Turk, end quote. A race of born petrists in the former region, we first notice a peculiarity of the feminine figure, the mamai inclinatai yakentes et panosai, which prevails over all this part of the belt, whilst the women to the north and south have, with local exceptions, the mamai stantes of the European Virgin. Those of Turkey, Persia, Afghanistan, and Kashmir lose all the fine curves of the bosom, sometimes even before the first child. And after it, the hemispheres take the form of bags. This cannot result from climate only. The women of Maratha land, inhabiting a damper in hotter region than Kashmir, are noted for fine, firm breaths even after a parturition. The vice, of course, prevails more in the cities and towns of Asiatic Turkey than in the villages, yet even these are infected, while the nomad Turkomans contrast badly in this point with the Gypsies, those Badawin of India. The Kurd population is of Iranian origin, which means that the evil is deeply rooted. I have noted in the Nights that the great and glorious Saladin was a habitual petrist, the Armenians, as their national character is, will prostitute themselves for gain, but prefer women to boys. Georgia supplied Turkey with catamites, whilst Circassia sent concubines. And Mesopotamia, the barbarous invader, has almost obliterated the ancient civilization, which is ante-dated only by the Nelotik. The mysteries of old Babylon, nowhere survived save in certain obscure tribes like the Mandayans, the devil worshipers in the area. Entering Persia, we find the reserve of Armenia, and despite Herodotus, I believe that Iran borrowed her pathologic love from the peoples of the Tigris-Euphrates Valley and not from the then insignificant Greeks. But whatever may be its origin, the corruption is now bred in the bone. It begins in boyhood and many Persians account for it by paternal severity. Yous arrive at puberty, find none of the facilities with which Europe supplies fornication. Onanism is, to a certain extent, discouraged by circumcision, and meddling with the father's slave-girls and concubines would be risking cruel punishment if not death. Hence they use each other by turns, a pure isle practice known as Alish Takish, the Latin Fakere Wikibus, or Mutim Fakere. Temperament, media, and activism recommend the custom to the general, and after marrying in beginning heirs, paterfamilias return to the Ganymede. Hence all the odes of Haphis are addressed to youths, as proved by such Arabic exclamations as Afakala equals ala asin the masculine. The object is often fanciful, but it would be held coarse and immodest to address an imaginary girl. An illustration of the penchant is told at Shiraz concerning a certain Muchahid, the head of the Shia creed corresponding with a prince-archbishop in Europe. A friend once said to him, quote, there is a question I would find addressed to your eminence, but I lack the daring to do so, and quote, quote, ask and fear not, and quote, replied the divine, quote, it is this, O Muchahid, figure thee in a garden of roses and hyacinths, with the evening breeze waving the cypress heads, a fair youth of twenty sitting by thy side, and the assurance of perfect privacy, what prithee thee would be the result, end quote, the holy man bowed the chin of doubt upon the collar of meditation, and to honest to lie presently whispered, quote, Allah defend thee from such temptation of Satan, end quote. Yet even in Persia, men have not been wanting, who have done their utmost to uproot the vice, in the same Shiraz they speak of a father who, finding his son in flagrant delectae, put him to death like Brutus or Link of Galway. Such isolated cases, however, can affect nothing. Shardon tells us that houses of male prostitution were common in Persia, whilst those of women were unknown. The same is the case in the present day, and the boys are prepared with extreme care by diet, baths, depilation, ungence, and a host of artists and cosmonics. Levis is looked upon at most as a peccadillo, and its mention crops up in every jest book. When the Ishfahan man marked Shakh Saadi, by comparing the bald pates of Shirazian elders to the bottom of a Lota, a brass cup with a wide neck opening used in the Hamam, the woody poet turned its aperture upwards and there too likened the well-abused Podex of an Ishfahan youth. Another favorite piece of Shirazian chaff is to declare that when an Ishfahan father would set up his son in business, he provides him with a pound of rice, meaning that he can sell the result as compost for the kitchen garden, and with the price by another meal, hence the saying, chak i pai kahun, the soil at the lettuce root. The Ishfahanis retort with the name of the station or halting place between the two cities where, under presence of making travellers stow away their riding gear, many of Shirazian had been raped, hence, quote, zin o takul tu tu bibbar, end quote, carry within the saddle and saddlecloth. A favorite Persian punishment for strangers caught in the harem, or jinaikium, is to strip and throw them and expose them to the embraces of the glooms and negro slaves. I once asked, a Shirazi how penetration was possible if the patient resisted with all the force of the sphincter muscle. He smiled and said, quote, ah, we Persians know a trick to get over that. We apply a sharpened tent peg to the copper bone, os kokyugus, and knock till he opens, end quote. A well-known missionary to the east during the last generation was subjected to this gross insult by one of the Persian prince-governors whom he had infuriated by his conversion mania. In his memoirs, he alludes to it by mentioning his dishonored person, but English readers cannot comprehend the full significance of the confession. About the same time, Shaq Nasr, governor of Bushur, a man famed for fascist black guardism, used to invite European youngsters serving in the Bombay Marine and ply them with liquor till they were insensible. Next morning, the midis mostly complained that the champagne had caused a curious irritation in Surness and La Parse Posse. The same Eastern Skrogian would ask his guests if they had ever seen a man cannon Adamita, and on their reply to the negative, a gray bearded slave was dragged in blaspheming and struggling with all his strength. He was presently placed in all fours and firmly held by the extremities. His bag trousers were let down and a dozen peppercorns were inserted on Osuo. The target was a sheet of paper held at a reasonable distance. The match was applied by a pinch of cyan to the nostrils. The sneeze started the grapeshoot, and a number of hits on the butt decided the bets. We can hardly wonder at the loose conduct of Persian women perpetually mortified by marital peterasty. During the unhappy campaign of 1856 to 1857, in which, with the exception of the few brilliant skirmishes, we gained no glory, Sir James Uttram in the Bombay Army showing how badly they could work. There was a formal outburst of the harems, and even women of princely birth could not be kept out of the officer's quarters. The cities of Afghanistan and Sindh are thoroughly saturated with Persian vice, and the people sing Kadriku's Aguandanad, Kadrikunra Kabuli. The words of Konyat, the Afghan knows, Kabul prefers, the other chose. The Afghans are commercial travelers on a large scale, and each caravan is accompanied by a number of boys and lads, almost in women's attire with cold eyes and rubbed cheeks, long tresses and henna, fingers and toes. Riding luxuriously in kajawas, or camel pinners, they are called kuchi'i, safari, or traveling wives, and the husbands tread patiently by their sides. In Afghanistan, also a frantic debauchery broke out amongst the women when they found incubi who were not petrists, and the scandal was not the most insignificant cause of the general rising at Kabul, November 1841, and the slaughter of Maknaktan, Bernes, and other British officers. Resuming our way eastward, we find the Sikhs and the Muslims of the Punjab much addicted to the vice, although the Himalayan tribes to the north and those lying south, the Rajputs in the Marathas, ignore it. The same may be said of the Kashmarinians, who add another kapa to the Triakakista, Kapadoklans, Kretans, and Kalishtians. The proverb says, Though of men there be famine yet, shun these three Afghans Cindy and rascally Kashmiri. M. Louis Deville describes the infamies of Lahore and Lucknow, where he found men dressed as women with flowing locks under crowns of flowers, imitating the feminine walk and gestures, voice and fashion of speech, and ovaling their admirers with all the coquetry of Bayanderes. Victor Jacques Mont's Journal des Voyages describes the pedorasty of Ranjit Singh, the lion of the Punjab, and his path at Gulab Singh, whom the English inflicted upon Kashmir as ruler by way of pain for his treason. Yet the Hindus, I repeat, hold pedorasty in abhorrence, and are as much scandalized by being called Gandhamada, Anusbhita, or Gandhu, Anus, or as Englishmen would be. During the years 1843 to 1844, my regiment, almost all Hindu Supois of the Bombay Presidency, was stationed at a purgatory called Bandar Gahara, a sandy flat with a scatter of verdigree-green milk bush some 40 miles north of Karachi, the headquarters. The dirty heap of mud and matte hovels, which represented the adjacent native village, could not supply a single woman, yet only one case of pedorasty came to light, and that after a tragical fashion some years afterward. A young Brahmin had connection with a soldier-comer out of low caste, and this had continued till in an unhappy hour the pariah-patient, ventured to become the agent. The latter, an Arab, al-Fahil, the doer, is not an object of contempt, like al-Mathul, the done, and the high caste Supois, stung by remorse and revenge, loaded his musket and deliberately shot his paramour. He was hanged by court-martial at Hyderabad, and, when his last wishes were asked, he begged in vain to be suspended by the feet. The idea being that his soul polluted by exiting below the waist would be doomed to endless trans-migrations through the lowest forms of life. Beyond India, I have stated, the Sotatic zone begins to broaden out, embracing all China, Turkestan, and Japan. The Chinese, as far as we know them in the great cities, are omnivorous in Omnifu Tentes. They are the chosen people of Dubatari, and their systemic bestiality with ducks, goats, and other animals is equaled only by their petristic. Kaim fur and Orlaftori, voyage in Shine, notice the public houses for boys and youths in China and Japan. Describes the tribalism of their women and hammocks. When Pekin was plundered, the harems contained a number of balls a little larger than the old musket bullet, made of thin silver with a loose pellet of brass inside something like a grellet. These articles replaced by the women between the labia and an up and down movement on the bed gave a pleasant titillation when nothing better was to be procured. They have every artifice of luxury, aphrodisiacs, erotic perfumes, and singular applications. Such are the pills which, dissolved in water and applied to the gland's penis, cause it to throb and swell. So according to Amorigio Vespucci, American women could artificially increase the size of their husband's parts. The Chinese bracelet of Kaute Chowk, studded with points, now takes the place of the Harrison, or Analyst's heuristus, which was bound between the glands and prepos of the penis Sacadain-ness, that imitation of the arboruitae, or Sorter Cosmu, which the latins called phallus and fascinium, the French Godomische, and the Italians Passetempo and De Leto, once our dodo, every kind of balance varying from a stuffed French letter to a cone of ribbed horn which looked like an instrument of torture. For the use of men they have the merkin, a heart-shaped article of thin skin stuffed with cotton and slit with an artificial vagina, two tapes at the top and one below lash it to the back of a chair. The erotic literature of the Chinese and Japanese is highly developed and their illustrations are often facetious as well as obscene. All are familiar with that of the strong man who, by a blow with his enormous phallus, shivers a copper pot. In the ludicrous con's trust of the high-membered white who land in the Isle of Women and presently escaped from it, wrinkled and shriveled, true domine de littles. Of Turkestan, we know little, but what we know confirms my statement. Mr. Shuler in his Turkestan 132 offers an illustration of a Bacta Persian bacheche, catamite, quote, or singing boy surrounded by his admirers, end quote. Of this harter, as Master Perchess leconically says, five four hundred and nineteen, quote, they are addicted to sodomy or buggery, end quote. The learned cow assist Dr. Thomas Sanchez, the Spaniard, had, says Miribu and Kedshek. To decide a difficult question concerning the sinfulness of a peculiar erotic perversion, the Jesuits brought home from Manila a tailed man whose movable prolongation of the Ose Kokugas measured from seven to ten inches he had placed himself between two women and joined one naturally while the other used his tail as a penis than Nias. The verdict was incomplete sodomy and simple fornication. For the islands north of Japan, the sodomitical sea and the Nail of Tyne thrust through the pre-puse to prevent sodomy. See Libras 2, Chapter 4 of Master Thomas Cow Dishes' circumnavigation and Volume 6 of Pinkerton's Geography translated by Walke and Nair. End of Section 27. Section 28 of the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 10. This is a LibraVox recording. All LibraVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibraVox.org. Recording by Elsie Selwyn. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 10 by Anonymous. Translated by Richard Francis Burton. Social Condition D, Peteresty, Part 3. Passing over to America, we find that the Sotatic Zone contains the whole hemisphere from Bering Strait to Magellans. This prevalence of molities astonishes the anthropologist who is apt to consider peteresty the growth of luxury and the special product of great and civilized cities. Unnecessary and therefore unknown to simple savagery where the birds of both sexes are about equal and female and fantaside is not practiced. In many parts of the New World, this perversion was accompanied by another depravity of taste, confirmed cannibalism. The forests and campos abounded in game from the deer to the pheasant-like Penelope, and the seas and rivers produced an unfailing supply of excellent fish and shellfish. Yet the Brazilian Tupes preferred the meat of man to every other food. A glance at Mr. Bancroft proves the abnormal development of sodomy amongst the savages and barbarians of the New World, even his half-frozen hyperborians, quote, possess all the passions which are supposed to develop most freely under a milder temperature, end quote, 158, quote, the voluptuousness and polygamy of the North American Indians under a temperature of almost perpetual winter as far greater than that of the most sensual tropical nations, end quote, Martin's British Colony's 3, 524. I can quote only a few of the most remarkable instances of the Cognagas of Cardiac Island and the thinklets we read, 1, 81 to 82, quote, the most repubnant of all their practices is that of male concubine-age.  Arriving at the age of 10 or 15 years, he is married to some wealthy man who regards such a companion as a great acquisition. These male concubines are called akumyok shik, or shopans, end quote. The authorities quoted being Landsdorf, Billing, Chorus, Lysansky, and Marchand. The same is the case in Nutca Sound in the Aluthian Islands where, quote, male concubine-age obtains throughout, but not to the same extent as among the Cognagas, end quote. The objects of unnatural affection have their beards carefully plucked out as soon as face hair begins to grow, and their chins are tattooed like those of the women. In California, the first missionaries found the same practice, the youths being called Joya, Bancroft 1, 415, and the authorities Pellon, Crespi, Boscana, Mofras, Torquemada, Duflat, and Fogs. The command she's unite incest with Sodomy, 1, 515, quote, and New Mexico, according to Arlegui, Rebas, and other authors, male concubine-age prevails to a great extent. These loathsome semblances of humanity, whom to call beastly were slander upon beasts, dressed themselves in the clothes and performed the functions of women, the use of weapons being denied them, 1, 585. Pederesty was systematically practiced by the people of Cuba, Coretta, and other parts of Central America, the Chakiques, and some of the headmen, Caperums of Youths, who, as soon as destined for the unclean office, were dressed as a woman. They went by the name of Kamayoas, and were hated and detested by the good wives, 1, 733 to 774, of the Nahua Nation's father Pierre de Gang, Elias de Musa, writes, among the Mayans of Yucatan, Las Casas, declares that the great prevalence of unnatural lust made parents anxious to see their progeny wedded as soon as possible. Kingsborough, Mexican anthology, 8135, and Verapaz, a god called by some Chin or by others Cavial and Maran, taught it by committing the act with another god. Some fathers gave their sons a boy to use as a woman, and if any other approach this path that he was treated as an adulterer. Yucatan images were found by Bernal Diaz, proving the medical propensities of the people, Bancroft 5198. Depau, Recherches, Philosophiques, Soullés, Americans, London 771, has much to say about the subject in Mexico generally, in the northern provinces men married youths, who dressed like women were forbidden to carry arms. According to Gomorrah, there were at Taume Pais houses of male prostitution, and from Diaz and others we gather that the pecado nefando was the rule. Both in Mexico and in Peru it might have caused if it did not justify the cruelties of the conquistadores. Pederesty was also general throughout Nicaragua, and the early explorers found it amongst the indigenes of Panama. We have authentic details concerning Levis and Peru in its adjacent lands, beginning with Cíace de Leon, who must be read in the original or in the translated extracts of Purchase, Vol. 5, 942, etc., not in the cruelly castrated form preferred by the council of the Hac Luit Society. Speaking of the new Granada Indians, he tells us that, quote, at Old Port Porto Viejo in Puna, the devils so far prevailed in their beastly devotions that there were boys consecrated to serve in the temple, and at the times of their sacrifices and solemn feasts, the lords and principal men abused them to that detestable filthiness," end quote, i.e. performed their peculiar worship. Generally in the hill countries, the devil, under the show of holiness, had introduced the practice. For every temple or chief house of adoration kept one or two men or more which were retired like women, even from the time of their childhood and spake like them, imitating them in everything with these under pretext of holiness and religion, principal men on principal days had commerce. Speaking of the arrival of the giants at point Santa Elena Ciesa says, Chapter 52, they were detested by the natives because in using their women they killed them, and their men also in another way. All the natives declare that God brought upon them a punishment proportion to the enormity of their offense. When they were engaged together in their accursed intercourse, a fearful and terrible fire came down from heaven with a great noise, out of the midst of which there issued a shining angel with a glittering sword, wherewith, at one below, they were all killed and the fire consumed them. There remained a few bones and skulls which God allowed to bide unconsumed by the fire as a memorial of this punishment, and the Hakliet Society's bowdolerization, we read of the tumbez islanders being quote, very vicious, many of them committing the abominable offense, end quote, page 24, also quote, if by the advice of the devil any Indian commit the abominable crime, it is that little of, and they call him a woman, end quote. In chapters 52 and 58, we find exceptions. The Indians of Juan Cabamba, quote, although so near the people of Puerto Viejo and Coacoquil, do not commit the abominable sin, end quote, and the serraños, or island mountaineers, as sorcerers and magicians and inferior to the host peoples, were not so much addicted to sodomy. The royal commentaries of the Incas show that the evil was of a comparatively modern growth, and the early period of Peruvian history, the people considered the crime unspeakable. If a Kutsuko Indian, not of Nkaryal blood, angrily addressed the term pedarus to another, he was held infamous for many days. One of the generals having reported to the Inka Kukpak Yupengkwi that there were some sonomites, not in all the valleys, but one here and one there, quote, nor was it habit of all the inhabitants, but only of certain persons who practiced it privately, end quote. The ruler ordered that the criminal should be publicly burnt alive in their houses, crops, and trees destroyed. Moreover, to show his abomination, he commanded that the whole village should be so treated if one man fell into this habit. 3. Chapter 13. Elsewhere we learn, quote, there were sonomites in some provinces, though not openly nor universally, but some particular men and in secret, and some parts they had them in their temples because the devil persuaded them that the gods took great delight in such people, and thus the devil acted as a traitor to remove the veil of shame that the gentiles feel for this crime and to accustom themselves to commit it in public and in common, end quote. During the times of the conquistadores, male concubinage had become the rule throughout Peru. At Cusco we are told by Nuno de Guzman in 1530, quote, the last which was taken in which fought most courageously was a man and a habit of a woman, which confessed that from a child he had gotten his living from that filthiness for which I caused him to be burned, end quote. V. F. Lopez draws a frightful picture of pathologic love in Peru. Under the reins which followed out of Inti Capac, Amari, the country was attacked by invaders of a giant race coming from the sea, and they practiced peteresty after a fashion so shameless that the concurtries were compelled to fly. Page 271, under the pre-incarial amalta, or priestly dynasty, Peru had lapsed into savagery and the kings of Cusco preserved only the name. Tout c'est entre toutes ces misères, provenient des 12 vices en femmes. La bestialité et la soudanie, la femme surtout était enfoncée. Des voiles à la nature frustrée des tous ces doigts. Oui, pluré ensemble en leur réunion sur la misérable état dans lequel elles étaient tombées, sur le mépris avec lequel elles s'étaient traité. Le monde était renversé, les hommes sur le maire étaient jaloux les ondes des autres. Elles cherchaient, mais envoient le moyen de remédier au mal. Elles ont pleuré des herbes et des rossettes diaboliques, qui leur amenaient bien quelques individus. Mais ne prouvaient arrêter les progrès en ces temps de vices. Cet état de chose constitue un véritable moyen âge qu'on rajoutait le establishment du gouvernement des Ancas, page 277. When Sinshi Roko, the 95th of Montesinos in the 91st of Garcilazo, became Inca, he found morals at the lowest ebb. Ni la prudence d'Inca, ni les lois sévères qu'il avait promulgué, ni avait pu extirpir entièrement. Le péché contre la nature, il reprait avec un nouvel violence, et les femmes enfurent, si jalouse qu'un grand nombre réveil torrent les romachis. Les dévins et les sociés passaient, le jaunet a fabriqué, avec certains herbes, des compositions magiques, qui rendaient foussous qui amanguaient, et les femmes enfuisaient prendre, soit dans les aliments, soit dans la chicha, à soudon elles étaient jalouse. Page 291. I have remarked that the Tupi races of the Brazil were infamous for cannibalism nor could the letter be only racial as proved by the fact that colonists of pure Lucitian blood followed in the path of the savages. Sir Antonio Augusto da Costa a Villar is outspoken upon this point, quote, a crime which in England leads to the gallows, and which is the very measure of abject depravity, passes with impunity amongst us by the participating in it of almost all or many. Ah, if the wrath of heaven were to fall by way of punishing such crimes delictos, more than one city of this empire, more than a dozen would pass into the category of the sadons and the memorials, end quote. Page 30. Till late years, peteresty in the Brazil was looked upon as a pecadillo, the European immigrants following the practice of the wild men who were naked, but not, as Columbus said, quote, cloved in innocence, end quote. One of Her Majesty's consuls used to tell tale of the hilarity provoked in a fashionable assembly by the open declaration of a young gentleman that his mulatto patient had suddenly turned upon him insisting upon becoming agent. Now, however, under the influences of improved education and respect for the public opinion of Europe, pathologic love amongst the Lusso Brazilians have been reduced to the normal limits. Outside the satatic zone, I have said Levis is sporadic, not endemic, yet the physical and moral effect of great cities were puberty, they say is induced earlier than in country sites, has been the same in most lands, causing modesty to decay and peteresty to flourish. The Varaoui Arab is wholly pure of Levis, yet San Ah, the capital of Al-Yamun, and other centuries of population, have long been, and still are, fairly infected. History tells us of Zhu Sanatir, tyrant of Arabia Felix in AD 478, who used to entice young men into his palace and cause them after use to be cast out of the windows. This unkindly ruler was, at last, ponyarded by the youth Zirash, known from his long ringlets as Zhu Noaz. The Negro race is mostly untainted by sodomy and tributism, yet Zhu'an, Duosanthos, found in Kakongo of West Africa, certain, quote, Chebudi, which are men attired like women and behave themselves womanly, shamed to be called men are also married to men and esteem the unnatural damnation and honor, end quote. Madagascar, also delighted in dancing and singing boys dressed as girls. In the empire of Dahomi, I noted a core of prostitutes kept for the use of the Amazon soldieresses. North of the Sotatic zone, we find local but notable instances. Master Christopher Burrow describes on the western side of the Volga, quote, a very fine stone castle called by the name Uyak and adjoining to the same a town called by the Russes Sodom, which was swallowed into the earth by the justice of God for the wickedness of the people, end quote. Again, although as a rule, Christianity has steadily opposed pathologic love both in writing and preaching, there have been remarkable exceptions. Perhaps the most curious idea was that of certain medical writers in the Middle Ages, quote, Uses et emplexes pueri bene temporata salutaris medicine, end quote, Tardieu. We all know this is, under Vair, the infamous book of Giovanni della Casa, Archbishop of Benevento, quote, De la Ribos Sodomai, end quote, vulgarly known as Capitulo del Forno. The same writer refers, under 64, to the report that the domination order, which systematically decried Levis, had presented a request to the cardinal di Santa Lucia, that Sarmi might be lawful under three months per annum, during to August, and that the cardinal had underwritten the petition, quote, be it done as they demand, end quote, hence the fide of Venus of Battista Mantavanno. Veo rejects the history for a curious reason, Vineri being colder in summer than in winter, end quote, the proverb, un monstre qui nous pendait plus embrasser et bien boire. But in the case of a celibate priesthood, such scandals are inevitable, witness the famous Jesuit epitaph, s'il dit une Jesuit, etc. In our modern capitals, London, Berlin, and Paris, for your instance, the vice seems subject to periodical outbreaks. For many years, also, England sent her petaris to Italy, and especially to Naples, once originated the term, il vit sur une glace. It would be invicious to detail the scandals which of late years have startled the public in London and Dublin. For these, the curious will consult the police reports. Berlin, despite her strong devour of faricism, puritanism, and chauvinism in religion, manners, and morals, is not a wit better than her neighbours. Dr. Gaspar, a well-known authority on the subject, adduces many interesting cases, especially an old Count Kajus, and his six accomplices. Amongst as many correspondents, one suggested to him that not only Plato and Julius Caesar, but also Winckelman and Platon belong to the society, and he had found it flourishing in Palmero, La Louvre, the Scottish Highlands in St. Petersburg, to namely a few places. Frederick the Great has said to have addressed these words to his nephew. This suggests the popular anecdote of Voltaire and the Englishman who agreed upon a experience and found it far from satisfactory. A few days afterward, the latter informed the sage of Furni that he had tried it again and provoked the exclamation, once a philosopher, twice the sodomite. The last revival of the kind in Germany is a society at Frankfurt and its neighbourhood, self-sired Le Crateve Noir, an opposition, I suppose, Paris is by no means more depraved than Berlin and London, but whilst the latter hushes up the scandal, Frenchmen do not. Hence we see a more copious account of it submitted to the public. For France at the 17th century, consult the Histoire de la Prostitution chez tous les Pouplés du Monde, and La France du Venue Italienne, a treatise which generally follows by Bussy Conte des Raboutins. They had quarters of male prostitution more than in Champ de Florie, i.e. Champ de Florre, the privileged rendez-vous of low courtesans, in the 18th century. As Voltaire sings and invented the term péché philosophique, there was a temporary recrudescence, and after the death of March 1779, his Apologie de la Secte en Andrine was published in Les Spions Anglais. In those days, the Allée des Veuves and the Champs-Elysées had a in the language of Sodom being the the favourite youth. At the decisive moment of monarchical decomposition, Mirabou declares that peteresty was and adds et les financiers, sous qui sont privés de le testiculure ou en termes de la, quand notre langue est plus chaste qu'ils n'ont mieux, qu'ils n'ont pas les poids des titres, mais qui donnent un reçoive.  On laisse place tout nousur un matelas ouvert par la moitié intérieure, du fil les carrés de l'émire, pendant qu'on transimère frappe doucement, avec des sentiers naissances les chiènes des désirées véniriennes, après un cas d'air frais de cet assez. On le introduit dans les années sous une preuve rouge, qui causait une irritation considérable, un poste sur les échelons bleus pour l'huit, par les opties, dès la montagne des coups d'aubex, elles ont passé le blanc un confre, sous qui résister à sous-preuve, ils n'aident à qu'une signe d'érection. The restoration and the empire made the police more vigilant in matters of politics than of mortals. The favorite club, which had its mot de passé, was in the Rue Donnier, Old Quarter Saint Thomas de Louvre. In the house was a hotel of the 17th century, two street doors on the right for the Mayor Gnaikyam, and the left for the female opened at 4pm in winter and 8pm in summer, a decoy lad charmingly dressed in women's clothes with big haunches and a small waist promenaded outside, and this continued till 1896, when the police put down the house. Under Louis-Philippe, the conquest of Algiers had evil results, according to Marquis de Bocé. He complained without a mood arabes in French regiments, and declared that the result of the African wars was an effroyable débordement pédérastique. Even as the Vérôlée resulted from the Italian campaigns of that age of passion, the 16th century, from the military that flew, spread to civilian society and the vice, took such expansion and intensity that it may be said to have been democratized in cities and large towns, at least so we gather from the dossier des agissements des pédérastes. A general gathering of was held in the old petit trou des marais, where after the theater, many resorted under pretext of making water. They ranged themselves along the walls of a vast garden and exposed their potencies. Au joie, Richards and Nobles came with full purses touched the part which most attracted them and were duly followed by it, at the allée des voeux. The crowd was dangerous from 7 to 8 p.m., no policemener comme des nonnes. Their adventure and their cords were stretched from tree to tree and armed guards drove away strangers amongst whom they say was once Victor Hugo. This nuisance was at length suppressed by the municipal administration. The empire did not improve morals. Balls of salt mines were held at number 8 Place de la Madeleine, where on January 2nd 64, some 150 men met all so well dressed as women that even the landlord did not recognize them. There was also a club for sotatic debauchery called the Sangard and the Dragons de la Imperatrice. They copied the imperial toilette and kept it in a general wardrobe, hence their l'imperatrice, meant to be used currently. The site, a splendid hotel in the Allée des Veux, was discovered by the procureur général, who registered all the names. But as these belonged to not a few senators and dignitaries, the emperor wisely quashed these proceedings. The club was broken up on July 16th 64. During the same year, the Petite Revue, edited by Montchure-Lordain-Larky, son of the general, printed an article Les Eschappés des Soudons. It discusses the letter of Montchure-Castignari to the Progrès des Lyons, and declares that the vice had been adopted by Closier Cor des Tropes, for its latest developments as regards the chantage of the tante-pathics. The reader will consult the last issues of Dr. Tardoux's well-known étude. He declares that the servant class is most infected and that the vice is commonest between the ages of 15 and 25. The peteresty of the knights may briefly be disturbed into three categories. The first is the funny form, as the unseemly practical joke of masterful Queen Boudure, volume 3, 300 to 306, and not the least hearty jest of the slave princess Zamorred, volume 4, 226. The second is the grimmest and most earnest phase of the perversion, for instance where Abu Nowas debauches the three youths, volume 5, 64, 69, whilst in the third form it is wisely and learnedly discussed to be severely blamed by the sheikah or a reverend woman, volume 5, 154. To conclude this part of my subject, the éclasissement des obscanités. Many readers will regret the absence from the knights of that modesty which distinguishes Amadis de Gal who is out there when leaving a man and a maid together says, quote, quote, and nothing shall be here related for these and such like things which are conformable neither to good conscience or nature man ought and reason likely to pass over holding them in slight esteem as they deserve, end quote. Nor have we less respect for Palmyrin of England who after a rosque scene declares, quote, herein is no offense offered to the wise by wanton speeches or encouragement to the loose by lascivious matter, end quote. But these are not Oriental ideas and we must intake the Eastern as we find him. He still holds, quote, naturalna non sunt torpia, end quote, together with, quote, mundes umia munda, end quote. And as Bacon assures us the mixture of a lie cloth add to pleasure so the Arab enjoys the startling and lively contrast of extreme virtue and horrible vice placed in juxtaposition. Those who have read through these ten volumes will agree with me that the proportion of offensive matter bears a very small ratio to the mass of the work and an age saturated with Kant and hypocrisy here and there Avino Penn will mourn over the pornography of the nights, dwell upon the ethics of dirt in the garbage of the brothel, and will lament the wanton dissemination of ancient and filthy fiction. This self-constituted censor morum reads Aristophanes and Plato, Horace and Virgil, perhaps even Marshall and Petronius, because, quote, veiled in the decent obscurity of a learned language, end quote. He allows his men, let's name but he is scandalized at stumbling blocks much less important in plain English. To be consistent he must begin by bolderizing not only the classics, which boys and youths, minds and memories are soaked and saturated at schools and colleges, but also Boca Ciccio, and Chaucer, Shakespeare and Robinet's, Burton, Stern, Swift, and a long list of works which are yearly reprinted and republished without a word of protest. Lastly, why does not this inconsistent, puritan, perseal testament of its illusions to human ordure and the putenda to carnal copulation and impudent hordom, to adultery and fornification, to anonism, sodomy and bestiality, but this he will not do, though why did this occur? To the interested critic of the Edinburgh review, read 335 of July 1886, I return my warmest thanks for his direct and deliberate falsehoods. Lies are one-legged and short-lived and venom evaporates. It appears to me that when I show to such men so respectable and so impure a landscape of magnificent prospects, whose vistas are adored with every charm of nature and art, they point their unclean noses at a little heap of muck here and there lying in a field corner. End of section 28. Section 29 of the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume 10. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Recording by phone. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume 10 by Anonymous, translated by Richard Francis Burton. On the prose rhyme and to poetry of the knights, A. The Saja. According to the promise in my foreword, I here proceed to offer a few observations concerning the Saja or rhymed prose and the sheer or measured sentence, that is, the verse of the knight. The former has in composition, metrical or unmetrical, three distinct forms. Saja mutavazi, parallel, the most common is when the ending words of sentences agree in measure, assonance, and final letter, in fact, are full rhyme. Next is Saja mutaraf, the affluent, when the periods, hemi sticks or couplets end in words whose terminal letters correspond, although differing in measure and number. And thirdly, Saja muwazana, equilibrium, is applied to the balance which affects words corresponding in measure, but differing in final letters. Al Saja, the fine style or style fleuri, also termed al-badia, or euphuism, is the basis of all Arabic euphony. The whole of the Quran is written in it, and the same is the case with the makamat of al-hariri and the prime masterpieces of rhetorical composition. Without it, no translation of the holy book can be satisfactory or final, and where it is not, the assemblies becomes the prose of prose. Thus universally used, the assonance has necessarily been abused, and its excess has given rise to the saying, al-saj faja, prose rhymes a pest. English translators have, unwisely I think, agreed in rejecting it, while Germans have not. Mr. Preston assures us that rhyming prose is extremely ungraceful in English, and introduces an air of flippancy. This was certainly not the case with Friedrich Rückert's version of the great original, and I see no reason why it should be so or become so in our tongue. Torrens declares that the effect of the irregular sentence with the iteration of a jingling rhyme is not pleasant in our language. He therefore systematically neglects it, and gives his style the semblance of being scant with the object of saving study and trouble. Mr. Paine beams it in excrescence born of the excessive facilities for rhyme afforded by the language, and of eastern delight in antithesis of all kinds, whether of sound or of thought, and aiming elaborately at grace of style, he omits it wholly, even in the proverbs. The weight of authority was against me, but my plan compelled me to disregard it. The dilemma was simply either to use the saja, or to follow Mr. Paine's method, and arrange the disjective member of the original in their natural order, that is, to remodel the text, intending to produce a faithful copy of the Arabic, I was compelled to adopt the former, and still hold it to be the better alternative. Moreover, I question Mr. Paine's dictum that the saja form is utterly foreign to the genius of English prose, and that its preservation would be fatal to all vigor and harmony of style. The English translator of Palmarine of England, Anthony Munday, attempted it in places with great success, as I have before noted, and my late friend Edward Eastwick made artistic use of it in a school of stone. Had I rejected the cadence of the Kuwing dove, because in English I should have adopted the balanced periods of the Anglican marriage service, or the essentially English system of alliteration, requiring some such artful aid to distinguish from the vulgar recitative style the elevated and classical tirades in the nights, my attempt has found with reviewers more favourite than I expected, and a kindly critic writes of it, these melodious fray meets, these little eddies of song set like gems in the prose, have a charming effect on the ear, they come as dulcet surprises and mostly recur in highly wrought situations, or they are used to convey a vivid sense of something exquisite in nature or art. Their introduction seems due to whim or caprice, but really it arises from a profound study of the situation, as if the tale-teller felt suddenly compelled to break into the rhythmic stream. End of section 29, recording by phone.