"Having it off" with fish, camels, and lads: sodomitic pleasures in German-language turcica.

Journal of the History of Sexuality | October 1, 2004| | Copyright

IN 1530 THE GERMAN LUTHERAN REFORMER Justus Jonas claimed: "Wherever [the Turk] does not slay all, he leads off the best men, woman and child, and the youth, into captivity, and takes them to market in Turkey, naked, has them viewed shamefully, and sells them for money, like cattle." (1) What would a Lutheran reformer in the Saxon town of Wittenberg know about a Turkish bazaar? He must have gained his information from other texts, like those by former slaves of Ottoman masters, such as the Tractatus de Moribus, Condictionibus et Nequicia Turcorum (1481), presumably written by ...

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