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Bronze Age Pervert Sunday 2 Dec 2012

This is a thread to discuss the theory of the Sotadic Zone:

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sotadic_zone

The existence of a Sotadic zone was a hypothesis of Richard Francis Burton . It asserted that there existed a geographic zone in which pederasty was prevalent and tolerated among the indigenous inhabitants. [1]
Burton first proposed this hypothesis in the Terminal Essay [2] contained in Volume 10 of his translation of The Arabian Nights in 1886. [3] The name Sotadic derives from Sotades , a Greek Hellenistic poet whose homoerotic verses are preserved in the Greek Anthology . According to Burton's description, the Sotadic zone is:

bounded westward by the northern shores of the Mediterranean (N. Lat. 43 °) and by the southern (N. Lat. 30°). Thus the depth would be 780 to 800 miles including meridional France , the Iberian peninsula , Italy and Greece , with the coast-regions of Africa from Morocco to Egypt ;

Running eastward the Sotadic Zone narrows, embracing Asia Minor , Mesopotamia and Chaldaea , Afghanistan , Sindh , the Punjab and Kashmir .

In Indo-China the belt begins to broaden, enfolding China , Japan and Turkistan .

It then embraces the South Sea Islands and the New World where, at the time of its discovery, Sotadic love was, with some exceptions, an established racial institution.

"Within the Sotadic Zone the Vice is popular and endemic, held at the worst to be a mere peccadillo, whilst the races to the North and South of the limits here defined practise it only sporadically amid the opprobrium of their fellows who, as a rule, are physically incapable of performing the operation and look upon it with the liveliest disgust."

http://paganpressbooks.com/jpl/RB-ESSAY.HTM

With quotations to follow below...

On another note, Richard Burton was one of the most alpha Englishmen ever...

Angocachi Monday 3 Dec 2012

"Meds, Yellows, Reds, and Central Asian Wogs are gay." -Richard Burton

Inkarri Monday 3 Dec 2012

:fuck:

Bronze Age Pervert Monday 3 Dec 2012

" It is calculated that the French of the sixteenth century had four hundred names for the parts genital and three hundred for their use in coition. The Greek vocabulary is not less copious, and some of its pederastic terms, of which Meier gives nearly a hundred, and its nomenclature of pathologic love are curious and picturesque enough to merit quotation...."

Bob Dylan Roof Monday 3 Dec 2012

Bronze Age Pervert
His theory is based on climate and geography, but he also notes:

The increase in androgyne types seems more likely in civilized and wealthy cultures, or warm weather cultures of leisure, where survival is not contingent upon being physically powerful (masculine) or being capable of reproducing valuable children. Hence Burton's note:

Trajan Monday 3 Dec 2012

This is like the bullshit claim that Eskimos have over a hundred words for snow

Bronze Age Pervert Tuesday 4 Dec 2012

Except in the case cited by Burton RE the French and Roman vocabularies for sex stuff it's not bullshit, and you're still a dumbass.

PortraitOfTheAutistAsAYoungRailFan Sunday 9 Dec 2012

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