HIST 347 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Lillian Faderman, Ludovico Sforza, Romantic Friendship
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Saphic was a more common term than lesbian: introduction. Male homosexuality began to gain an identity, an identifiable class apart, Minorizining: only a small stigmatized minority is attracted to their own sex. Universalism: adopted by queer theorist today, all men have same-sex desire, depends on how these are socially constructed. What about women in the 18th century and 19thcentury. Much our evidence come from police and court records, for males. Their was just a few cases, were women were prosecuted for having sex with other women, it was punishable because of the use a dildo. The dildo made it a crime, given the possible of sodomy. Women on women on sex was a lesser offence compared to that of men and men sex. It was more the use of artificial objects. -little prosecution for lesbian sex, except if use of a dildo; (aragon inquisition: persecution. 1560); ludovico maria sinistrari, de delictis et poenis (1700), on penetration by an enlarged clitoris.
