![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Anjali Arondekar, in For the Record: On Sexuality and the Colonial Archive in India, goes into some depth about the complex and shifting organizational schema with which British colonizers conceptualized "native" participation in male-male sexuality (either with each other, or, more threateningly, with Englishmen). As a note, the word "pederasty" at the time was used to denote male-male sexuality generally, and didn't necessarily refer to a relationship with an age difference wherein one party is a very young man or boy.
( Content warnings for homophobia, racism, Islamophobia, and general extreme cultural chauvinism on the part of the British in general and Burton in particular: )
Incidentally I was so sure some subaltern studies grad students must have named their garage-rock band "The Sotadic Zone" that I was frankly shocked to uncover zero relevant Google results.
( Content warnings for homophobia, racism, Islamophobia, and general extreme cultural chauvinism on the part of the British in general and Burton in particular: )
Incidentally I was so sure some subaltern studies grad students must have named their garage-rock band "The Sotadic Zone" that I was frankly shocked to uncover zero relevant Google results.
