10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CATAMITE»
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catamite in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
catamite and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London
Fig. 12. — Erect Calamites, from Group XVI. (see p. 6). First Report Geol. Survey
of Canada. POT) Natural size. Half natural t Fig. 13. Moot of Catamite, from Group
XXIII. (magnified). Fig. 14. Erect Catamite, with roott ; from Group XV. Fig. 16.
2
The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China
... Fujian stereotype — paid fifty taels of silver for "a beautiful boy" in the 1580s,
for which his upright provincial governor had him fired.189 What lent pederasty
social power, and set the catamite apart from the concubine, was not strictly
money.
3
Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia: The Regulation of ...
Tarnovskii had examined twenty-three "notorious catamite boys" and found that
the surest sign of the practice of passive sodomy was a weakening of the
sphincter muscle. This could be detected by any doctor "without specialist
training.
down in the law quoted by Aiskhines, not a prosecution for proposing an illegal
decree (graphe paranomon). Some modern scholars dismiss out of hand the
possibility that Androtion had ever been a catamite (though they never say how
they ...
Douglas M. MacDowell, 2009
5
The Old and New Testaments Connected in the History of the ...
ocles her brother, who was his catamite, governed him absolutely. Drinking,
gaming, and lasciviousness, were the whole employments of his life. Sosibins
being an old crafty minister, who had now served in the court under three kings,
did, ...
6
Homoerotic Sensibilities in Late Imperial China
With this development the relationship between literatus and catamite also
changed, existing within a commercial environment in which the boys were
owned by their master-trainers. A new space also evolved, centred on a growing
interest in ...
7
Castration: An Abbreviated History of Western Manhood
They were doomed, physically, to the despised category of the cinaedus, the
catamite, the male who allowed himself to be penetrated. Echoing Foucault's
description of the nineteenth-century "homosexual" as "a type of life, a life form," ...
live happily.21 (494d7.) Callicles agrees that to live pleasantly is to live happily. (
494d8.) Socrates then tightens the screws further and asks Callicles if the life of a
catamite22 is a happy one when the catamite is able to satisfy his needs?23 ...
9
The Satyricon: Easyread Comfort Edition
Clapping her hands softly she cried out, "Oh you witty rogue, you are a fountain of
repartee, but you never knew before that a catamite was called a k-night-cap,
now did you?" Then, fearing my companion would come off better than I, "
Madame ...
10
The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper
To Caprea? this Tiberius doe» retire, To quench with catamite his feeble fire.
Dear catamite ! who rules alone the state, While monarch dozes on his unpropt
height, Silent, yet thoughtless, and secure of fate. Could you but see the fulsome
hero ...
Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson, 1810
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CATAMITE»
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catamite is used in the context of the following news items.
As You Like It (Shakespeare's Globe)
And as the younger son, Orlando (Simon Harrison), is gradually seduced by Ganymede, Jove's son and a mythical catamite, so the debate ... «WhatsOnStage.com, May 15»
Cherry picking verses puts twist on morality
Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate (A Catamite. Boy kept for homosexual male), nor abusers of ... «Jacksonville Daily News, Apr 15»
Leonardo's drawings at center of MFA show
Leonardo trained him as an artist, employed him as a copyist, and seems to have enjoyed his company as both confidante and catamite. «Boston Globe, Apr 15»
The Book Quiz: beginnings, middles and ends
Which novel begins with the sentence, 'It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced ... «Irish Times, Apr 15»
Rundle: imploding Right in its Winter Palace turns against the people
In the 80s, when the Caterwauling Catamite first began squawking, on 2UE as a warm up for Loud John Jaws, Elliott pere was running the ... «Crikey, Feb 15»
All The Writers You Love Probably Love Dorothy Dunnett
At one point, Lymond's friend Jerott, incandescent with rage, hurls the word "catamite" at him. I looked this up in the dictionary, but its dry ... «NPR, Dec 14»
Tickle gizzard and the pleasure pivot: A history of sex slang and the …
... 'Pimp, Catamite and Favourite to the King', Buggeranthos, 'Generall of the Army' and the 'maids of honor' Fuckadilla, Clitoris and Cunticula. «Salon, Oct 14»
The lighter side of the dark net
The more users TOR gets the more secure its users shall be from predation by NSA and its catamite GCHQ. This is predicated on the ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Sep 14»
Great Expectorations
... rapine wholesale theft and barbaric manners for all the years that Erickson has been the literary catamite of twisted pervert Tom Phillips and ... «The Democratic Daily, Jul 14»
Dinesh D'Souza explains the one great failure of the 'greatest …
I met Ginsberg at Dartmouth in the 1980s—he came with his catamite Peter Orlovsky. While I tried to learn from Ginsberg about what motivated ... «TheBlaze.com, Jun 14»
