Homosexual Love

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“Homosexual love in the Europe and America-the obstacles it encountered and and the societies it created”.(1) Homosexual love in Europe and America Social history should leave as much room as possible for the mass humanity known as ordinary people.Historically segregation of lesbians and gay men homosexuality has a particular cause is more durable ultimate aim was still to find a cure. The authors aim of this book was to show the orgin of homosuality and sxual geography of homosexuality.

When I first picked up the book I expected the book to be about how two strangers being two men and two women met and how their love over the centuries was looked at. I also expected to learn how people felt about homosexual love. How people reacted to homosexuals.
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I did learn however that Homosexuality in the 18th century was looked as sodominy and sodominy was a punishible crime by death. I thought this book was going to be about a love story of two homosexual strangers in the City of London to America. Instead, this was a book about facts of how homesexuals were treated over time. How it went from a crime to a medical issue. Yes the author reached his intended goal by explaining how society has viewed homosexuialty and seeing it as a choice not something you are born as. Our society has not changed their view on homosexuality that much but at least we do not hang people, through them in jail or in a hospital because of their sexual …show more content…
As far as sodomites were concerned, the legal system was underpinned and eventually replace by the medical system. “homosexual life with the disinfectant smell of theory and favours certain groups: criminals and lunatics, fee-paying middle-class patients, and literate, liberated homsexuals”(5). Over half a century before the kinsey report, Moll replaced the quais-ethnic division of humity into hetero-sexual with the notion of sexual continuum. Over time the practical conclusion were obvious the law should be changed, and cures should be abandoned. Illnesses suffered by homesuals were cause, not bu mental or physical abnormality, by by fear, guilt and sexual

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