Beschreibung:
Placing sex acts in Asia at the forefront of historical investigation, this book explores the history of sodomy and other so-called transgressive sexual practices, such as anal sex, same-sex erotic encounters, pederasty, bestiality, incest, transgenderism, and oral sex, in East, Southeast and South Asia.
Introduction Part 1: Texts 1. Other Pleasures? Anal Sex and Medical Discourse in Pre-Modern China 2. Censured Sexual Acts and Early Medieval Society in India 3. Same-Sex Relations and Transgender Identities in Islamic Southeast Asia, from the Fifteenth Century to the 1940s Part 2: People 4. Strange Bedfellows: Male Homo-Eroticism and Politics in Thai History 5. The Shogun's Lover's Would-be Swedish Boyfriend: Inoue Masashige, Tokugawa Iemitsu and Olof Eriksson Willman Part 3: Crimes and Sins 6. Sodomy in Seventeenth-Century Manila: The Luck of a Mandarin from Taiwan 7. Male-Male Sex, Bestiality and Incest in the Early-Modern Indonesian Archipelago: Perceptions and Penalties