...its discovery, Sotadic love was, with some exceptions, an estahlished racial institution. 5 Within the Sotadic Zone the Vice is popular and endemic, held at the worst to he a mere peccadillo, whilst the races to the North and South of the limits here defined practise it...

...detail, sodomy, or "what our neighbors call Le vice contre nature," "is popular and endemic, held at worst to be a mere peccadillo, whilst the races to the North and South of the[se] limits . . . as a rule, are physically incapable of performing the operation and look upon...

...North Africa from Morocco to Egypt, stretching to India. Burton claimed that here such practices are "popular and endemic, held at the worst to be a mere peccadillo." The British sexologist Henry Havelock Ellis relied on Burton's reportings in arguing that southern...

...taking in the broadly equatorial regions of the world where, Burton claimed, pederasty and sodomy are 'popular and endemic, held at the worst to be a mere peccadillo'. Egypt was at the heart of the Sotadic Zone and was, according to Burton, the 'classical region of all...

...pederasty found in the Near East or Far East. Within the Sotadic Zone the Vice is popular and endemic,1 held at the worst to be a mere peccadillo, whilst the races to the North and South of the limits . . . practice it only sporadically amid the opprobrium of their fellows who, as a rule, are physically...

...pederasty found in the Near East or Far East. Within the Sotadic Zone the Vice is popular and endemic,1 held at the worst to be a mere peccadillo, whilst the races to the North and South of the limits . . . practice it only sporadically amid the opprobrium of their fellows who, as a rule, are physically...

...Asia Minor, Persia, Afghanistan and the Punjab and Kashmir and beyond. Within this zone, says Burton, the 'vice' is popular and endemic, held at the worst to be a mere peccadillo. m This concept of racially- and culturally-determined sexual preferences is also found in Barchester...

...244. Reproduced by permision of Edita Companie, Lausanne.) nature\ 'is popular and endemic, held at worst to be a mere peccadillo, whilst the races to the North and South of the[se] limits ... as a rule, are physically incapable of performing the operation and look upon it...