By Randy Engel
A story of intergenerational homosexuality within the American hierarchy
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Louis Crompton, “Jeremy Bentham’s Essay on ‘Paederasty’: An Introduction,” Journal of Homosexuality 3, no. 4 (1978): 383. Blackstone, Commentaries, 215. Jeremy Bentham, “Offences Against One’s Self: Paederasty,” ed. Louis Crompton, Journal of Homosexuality 3, no. 4 and 4, no. 1 (1978), 391. All further citations to Bentham, noted or otherwise, are to this essay. , 390. , 391. Coke, Third Institute, 58. For the best account of noneffeminated male homosexuality in classical Greek culture, see Foucault, Use, 78–93.
See Edward Ward, The Secret History of London Clubs (London, 1709), 299, where Ward presents a mock genealogy of the sodomite: Sure the curs’d Father of this Race, That does both sexes thus disgrace, Must be a Monster, Mad, or Drunk, Who, bedding some preposterous Punk, Mistook the downy seat of Love, And got them in the Sink above; So that, at first, a T—d and they Were born the very self same Way. Here “preposterous Punk” is a female prostitute who offers her anus (“the Sink above”), instead of her vagina (“the downy Seat of Love”).
For our purposes, the history of this process may be said to begin not with the medical community per se, but rather with an obscure Hanoverian legal official named Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (1825–1895), an “invert” or (as he called himself) an “Urning” who, having written in the 1860s and 1870s “a series of polemical, analytical, theoretical, and apologetic pamphlets,”[68] may be justifiably called both the father of modern gay activism and, by a familiar paradox, the author of the etiological account of gay desire that would prove, with slight modification, paradigmatic for subsequent medical definitions of homosexuality.