Is There a Japane 'Gay Inty'? on JSTOR

Contents:

• GAY JAPAN, EROTIC FICTN AND THE IMPERIAL IMAGATN
• NANSHOKU: EXPLORG JAPAN’S HISTORIL HOMOSEXUAL PRACTIC (NSFW)HOMOSEXUALY AMONG JAPAN’S SAMURAI, MONKS, AND BOURGEOISIE ANCIENT TIMPETER PRKAR·FOLLOWPUBLISHED SHORT HISTORY·5 M READ·MAY 11--SHAREIMAGE PICTG SEX BETWEEN TWO MEN (IMAGE: WIKIMEDIA COMMONS)WHEN STUDYG THE SEX LIV OF ANCIENT JAPANE ONE THG STANDS OUT — THE ANCIENT JAPANE WERE VERY TOLERANT OF GAY SEX. MALE HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVR WAS VERY MON, PECIALLY TOWNS. NOT ONLY THAT, BUT OFTEN WAS NSIRED BETTER THAN SEX WH A WOMAN.IN FACT, THE JAPANE EL SUCH AS BUDDHIST MONKS, SAMURAI, AND RICH MERCHANTS (BOURGEOIS) ALL PRACTICED GAY SEX. GAY SEX, PECIALLY WH YOUNG BOYS, WAS A TRENDY ACTIVY OF EL. THOSE POSNS OF POWER OFTEN SIRED YOUNGER MEN AS SEXUAL PARTNERS.“THE WAY OF MEN, THE WAY OF WOMEN — THERE’S NO DIFFERENCE.”—BUDDHIST MONK GENGOBEIWHAT WAS NANSHOKU?

GAY JAPAN, EROTIC FICTN AND THE IMPERIAL IMAGATN

In the cultur of the ancient world, there was no need for signatns such as LGBTQ+ bee there was no difference noted between what is now fed as "homosexual" and "heterosexual" relatnships. There are not even words the ancient languag which translate to the morn-day "homosexual" and "heterosexual" which were only ed 1869 CE. The Greek term arsenoko, translated as "homosexual" the Bible for the first time 1946 CE, never existed until was ed by St.

Scholar Col Spencer not, "Bisexualy the male was accepted as natural and never drew adverse ment, but passive homosexualy ma the Egyptians feel uneasy.

The tale of Sodom and Gomorrah om the Book of Genis is also monly ced attacks on the gay muny, but even Church Fathers such as Sat Ambrose (d.

NANSHOKU: EXPLORG JAPAN’S HISTORIL HOMOSEXUAL PRACTIC (NSFW)HOMOSEXUALY AMONG JAPAN’S SAMURAI, MONKS, AND BOURGEOISIE ANCIENT TIMPETER PRKAR·FOLLOWPUBLISHED SHORT HISTORY·5 M READ·MAY 11--SHAREIMAGE PICTG SEX BETWEEN TWO MEN (IMAGE: WIKIMEDIA COMMONS)WHEN STUDYG THE SEX LIV OF ANCIENT JAPANE ONE THG STANDS OUT — THE ANCIENT JAPANE WERE VERY TOLERANT OF GAY SEX. MALE HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVR WAS VERY MON, PECIALLY TOWNS. NOT ONLY THAT, BUT OFTEN WAS NSIRED BETTER THAN SEX WH A WOMAN.IN FACT, THE JAPANE EL SUCH AS BUDDHIST MONKS, SAMURAI, AND RICH MERCHANTS (BOURGEOIS) ALL PRACTICED GAY SEX. GAY SEX, PECIALLY WH YOUNG BOYS, WAS A TRENDY ACTIVY OF EL. THOSE POSNS OF POWER OFTEN SIRED YOUNGER MEN AS SEXUAL PARTNERS.“THE WAY OF MEN, THE WAY OF WOMEN — THERE’S NO DIFFERENCE.”—BUDDHIST MONK GENGOBEIWHAT WAS NANSHOKU?

Issu the morn-day regardg genr inty and civil rights for members of the LGBTQ muny are a relatively recent phenomenon as are the terms 'homosexual' and 'heterosexual'. The terms 'homosexual' and 'heterosexual' are morn nstcts of the 19th century, ed by the Atrian wrer Karl-Maria Kertbeny (l. Kertbeny, a closeted gay man, had lost a close iend his youth who killed himself after he was extorted by a blackmailer who found out he was gay.

Although homosexual relatnships were, of urse, regnized prr to Kertbeny, he was among the first to argue that one’s sexual preference and genr inty was nate – not a choice – and that a gay man should not be equated wh effemacy by potg to great hero of antiquy who were gay.

History, both morn and ancient, tells the stori of many people whose sexualy is downplayed or ignored bee, for centuri after the rise of Christiany, homosexualy was nsired a shameful s. One of the biblil passag most often ced the prent to nmn same-sex relatnships, Romans 1:24-27, any translatn, mentns how men and women gave up "natural relatns for unnatural" and mted "shamels acts" but, the ntext of the whole passage, this should be unrstood as referencg idolatro behavr – behavg as pagans did at i – rather than a mted gay relatnship. Later European translators of the Bible terpreted the reference to pagan sexual practic as viance, and this was fally terpreted as 'homosexualy' the 1946 Revised Standard Versn of the Bible (Cannon, 9).