...Virgil, despite the foul flavour of Formosum pastor Corydon, could write : — Nisus amore pio pueri. The only physical cause for the practice which suggests itself to me and that must be owned to be purelyconjectural, is that within the Sotadic Zone there is a blending of the masculine and feminine...

...an established racial institution. "5. Within the Sotadic Zone the vice is popular and endemic, held In Europe it is probably best illustrated by the case...which elsewhere only occurs sporadically" (Arabian NigMs, 1885, vol. x, pp. 205-254). The theory of the Sotadic Zone is interesting; but, as a critic...

...racial," and held that within what he called the Sotadic Zone "the vice is popular and endemic, held at the worst to be a mere peccadillo, while the races...vol. x, pp. 205-254). The theory of the Sotadic Zone fails to account for the custom among the Normans, Celts, Scythians, Bulgars, and Tartars, and, moreover,...

...racial," and held that within what he called the Sotadic Zone "the vice is popular and endemic, held at the worst to be a mere peccadillo, while the races...which elsewhere only occurs sporadically" (Arabian Xights, 1885, vol. x, pp. 205-254). The theory of the Sotadic Zone fails to account for the custom...

...racial," and held that within what he called the Sotadic Zone "the vice is popular and endemic, held at the worst to be a mere peccadillo, while the races...blending of the masculine and feminine temperaments, a erasis which elsewhere only occurs sporadically" (Arabian Mghts, 1885, vol. x, pp. 205-254). The theory...

...racial," and held that within what he called the Sotadic Zone "the vice is popular and endemic, held at the worst to be a mere peccadillo, while the races...which elsewhere only occurs sporadically" (Arabian Sights, 1885, vol. x, pp. 205-254). The theory of the Sotad'ic Zone fails to account for the custom...

...physically incapable of performing the operation and look upon it with the liveliest disgust. [. . .] The only physical cause for the practice which suggests...and feminine temperaments, a crasis which elsewhere occurs only sporadically. Hence the male féminisme [femininity] whereby the man becomes pattens [passive]...

...(Burton 1885, 10.206-7) Burton continues, speculating on 'physical causes' of pederasty. He suggests that 'within the Sotadic Zone there is a blending of the masculine and feminine temperaments' (Ibid., 208), and an 'abnormal distribution and condition of the nerves' (Ibid., 209). Early sexologists,...