HST 222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: The Adventures Of Roderick Random, Zoophilia, Puritans
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**decline of close communities that allowed them to regulate sex. ----- international diverse colonial experience** sodomy as an act vs. sodomy as a marker of orientation animal put to death in sodomy as well as offenders very serious crime. Farmer lose precious animal as well as his own life. Not suggesting conviction of women, women can be for bestiality (mostly male) None of 3 cases in ma - not consensual acts of sodomy. Anti sodomy campaigns entire subculture of these individuals. Pg 54- makes fun of masons, secret rituals = sodomy, satirizing. Bestiality first 2 docs from new haven. George spencer pig looked like him, both had one eye. Neighbors seen him inappropriately clothed: hernia. 1640s other immigrants, migrating for econ reasons. Bradford : envious men (destroy comm), undesirable immigrants (not religious, criminals), sent to colonies bc already acted like this english (family sent them away)
