[16] Monatshefte fuer praktische Dermatologie, Bd. xxix, 1899, p. 409.

[17] Hirschfeld, Die Homosexualitaet, p. 739.

[18] Beardmore also notes that sodomy is “regularly indulged in” in New Guinea on this account. (Journal of the Anthropological Institute, May, 1890, p. 464.)

[19] I have been told by medical men in India that it is specially common among the Sikhs, the finest soldier-race in India.

[20] Foley, Bulletin Societe d’Anthropologie de Paris, October 9, 1879.

[21] See, e.g., O. Kiefer, “Plato’s Stellung zu Homosexualitaet,” Jahrbuch fuer sexuelle Zwischenstufen, vol. vii.

[22] Bethe, op. cit., p. 440.  In old Japan (before the revolution of 1868) also, however, according to F.S.  Krauss (Das Geschlechtsleben der Japaner, ch. xiii, 1911), the homosexual relations between knights and their pages resembled those of ancient Greece.

[23] Archiv fuer Kriminal-Anthropologie, 1906, p. 106.

[24] Zeitschrift fuer Sexualwissenschaft, 1914, Heft 2, p. 73.

[25] Among the Sarts of Turkestan a class of well-trained and educated homosexual prostitutes, resembling those found in China and many regions of northern Asia, bearing also the same name of batsha, are said to be especially common because fostered by the scarcity of women through polygamy and by the women’s ignorance and coarseness.  The institution of the batsha is supposed to have come to Turkestan from Persia. (Herman, “Die Paederastie bei den Sarten,” Sexual-Probleme, June, 1911.) This would seem to suggest that Persia may have been a general center of diffusions of this kind of refined homosexuality in northern Asia.

[26] Morache, art.  “Chine,” Dictionnaire Encyclopedique des Sciences Medicales; Matignon, “La Pederastie en Chine,” Archives d’Anthropologie Criminelle, Jan., 1899; Von der Choven, summarized in Archives de Neurologie, March, 1907; Scie-Ton-Fa, “L’Homosexualite en Chine,” Revue de l’Hypnotisme, April, 1909.

[27] Moeurs des Peuples de l’Inde, 1825, vol. i, part ii, ch. xii.  In Lahore and Lucknow, as quoted by Burton, Daville describes “men dressed as women, with flowing locks under crowns of flowers, imitating the feminine walk and gestures, voice and fashion of speech, ogling their admirer with all the coquetry of bayaderes.”

[28] Voyages and Travels, 1814, part ii, p. 47.

[29] A. Lisiansky, Voyage, etc., London, 1814, p. 1899.

[30] Ethnographische Skizzen, 1855, p. 121.

[31] C.F.P. von Martius, Zur Ethnographie Amerika’s, Leipzig, 1867, Bd. i, p. 74.  In Ancient Mexico Bernal Diaz wrote:  Erant quasi omnes sodomia commaculati, et adolescentes multi, muliebriter vestiti, ibant publice, cibum quarentes ab isto diabolico et abominabili labore.