Age, structure, and sexuality: reflections on the anthropological evidence on homosexual relations
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Age, structure, and sexuality: reflections on the anthropological evidence on homosexual relations
J Homosex.
1985 Summer.
Abstract
The paper compares selected examples of age-structured homosexuality to understand same-sex eroticism as a "predictable" outcome of particular combinations of age, gender, and kinship. Unlike traditional models of homosexuality which view it as exceptional or abnormal, cross-cultural evidence demonstrates that homosexuality is an inextricable component of the structural codes of the societies in which it appears.
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