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Sexual Practices and Fluidities in a Shared Pre-Modern Mediterranean
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Abstract
Any consideration of the premodern Mediterranean must attend to its culture of shared sexual practices. The cultural fluency and mobility of people across the region created spaces where multiple sexualities were legible across Judaism, Christianity, and Islam and across linguistic and political differences, suggesting the fluidity of the Mediterranean opened up discrete spaces and permitted transgressive acts. A panoply of sexual practices shows that the widespread custom of concubinage, the selling of sex, the sexual exploitation of children and the enslaved, and the age-differentiated sexual pairings among same-gender communities made these acts legible across multiple linguistic and religious communities. When we consider the tolerance for and permissibility of sexual activities outside of marriage in patriarchal societies that privileged male access to women, children, and the enslaved, the commonalities are striking. In addition, bisexuality was a common feature, especially for men who engaged in same-gender relationships prior to marriage but still participated in heterosexual sex and unions.
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Sexual Practices and Fluidities in a Shared Pre-Modern Mediterranean
in Medieval EncountersSearch for other papers by Michelle Armstrong-Partida in
Current site
Google Scholar
PubMed
Search for other papers by Susan Alice McDonough in
Current site
Google Scholar
PubMed
Abstract
Any consideration of the premodern Mediterranean must attend to its culture of shared sexual practices. The cultural fluency and mobility of people across the region created spaces where multiple sexualities were legible across Judaism, Christianity, and Islam and across linguistic and political differences, suggesting the fluidity of the Mediterranean opened up discrete spaces and permitted transgressive acts. A panoply of sexual practices shows that the widespread custom of concubinage, the selling of sex, the sexual exploitation of children and the enslaved, and the age-differentiated sexual pairings among same-gender communities made these acts legible across multiple linguistic and religious communities. When we consider the tolerance for and permissibility of sexual activities outside of marriage in patriarchal societies that privileged male access to women, children, and the enslaved, the commonalities are striking. In addition, bisexuality was a common feature, especially for men who engaged in same-gender relationships prior to marriage but still participated in heterosexual sex and unions.
| Insgesamt | Letzte 365 Tage | In den letzten 30 Tagen | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aufrufe von Kurzbeschreibungen | 406 | 245 | 38 |
| Gesamttextansichten | 71 | 40 | 0 |
| PDF-Downloads | 157 | 99 | 1 |
