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	{{Citation longue\|reftype=1\|refstart=25\|refnotes={{refnote\|25\|This magnificent country, which the petty jealousies of Europe condemn, like the glorious regions about Constantinople, to mere barbarism, is tenanted by three Moslem races. The [[Berbères\|Berbers]], who call themselves Tamazight (plur. of Amazigh), are the Gætulian indigenes speaking an Africo-Semitic tongue (see Essai de Grammaire Kabyle, etc., par A. Hanoteau, Paris, Benjamin Duprat). The [[Arabes\|Arabs]], descended from the conquerors in our [[VIIIe siècle\|eighth century]], are mostly nomads and camelbreeders. Third and last are the Moors proper, the race dwelling in towns, a mixed breed originally Arabian but modified by six centuries of [[Espagne\|Spanish]] residence and showing by thickness of feature and a parchment-coloured skin, resembling the American Octaroon’s, a negro innervation of old date. The latter are well described in “Morocco and the Moors,” etc. (Sampson Low and Co., 1876), by my late friend Dr. Arthur Leared, whose work I should like to see reprinted.}}{{refnote\|26\|Thus somewhat agreeing with one of the multitudinous modern theories that the Pentapolis was destroyed by discharges of meteoric stones during a tremendous thunderstorm. Possible, but where are the stones?}}{{refnote\|27\|To this Iranian domination I attribute the use of many [[Perse\|Persic]] words which are not yet obsolete in [[Égypte\|Egypt]]. “Bakhshísh,” for instance, is not intelligible in the Moslem regions west of the Nile Valley and for a present the Moors say Hadíyah, regalo or favor.}}{{refnote\|28\|Arnobius and Tertullian, with the arrogance of their caste and its miserable ignorance of that symbolism which often concealed from vulgar eyes the most precious mysteries, used to taunt the heathen for praying to deities whose sex they ignored: “Consuistis in precibus ‘Seu tu Deus seu tu Dea,’ dicere!” These men would know everything; they made God the merest work of man’s brains and armed him with a despotism of omnipotence which rendered their creation truly dreadful.}}{{refnote\|29\|Gallus lit. {{=}} a cock, in pornologic parlance is a capon, a [[castrat]]o.}}{{refnote\|30\|The texts justifying or enjoining [[castration]] are Matt. xviii. 8-9; Mark ix. 43-47; Luke xxiii. 29 and Col. iii. 5. [[Paul de Tarse\|St. Paul]] preached (1 Corin. vii. 29) that a man should live with his wife as if he had none. The Abelian heretics of Africa abstained from women because Abel died virginal. Origen mutilated himself after interpreting too rigorously Matt. xix. 12, and was duly excommunicated. But his disciple, the Arab Valerius, founded (A.D. [[250]]) the castrated sect called Valerians who, persecuted and dispersed by the Emperors Constantine and Justinian, became the spiritual fathers of the modern Skopzis. These eunuchs first appeared in [[Russie\|Russia]] at the end of the [[XIe siècle\|eleventh century]], when two Greeks, John and Jephrem, were metropolitans of Kiew: the former was brought thither in A.D. [[1089]] by Princess Anna Wassewolodowna and is called by the chronicles Nawjè or the Corpse. But in the early part of the [[~~XVIIe~~ siècle\|last century]] ([[1715]]-[[1733]]) a sect arose in the circle of Uglitseh and in Moscow, at first called Clisti or flagellants which developed into the modern Skopzi. For this extensive subject see De Stein (Zeitschrift für Ethn. Berlin, 1875) and Mantegazza, chapt. vi.}}{{refnote\|31\|See the marvellously absurd description of the glorious “Dead Sea” in the Purchas v. 84.}}{{refnote\|32\|Jehovah here is made to play an evil part by destroying men instead of teaching them better. But, “Nous faisons les Dieux à notre image et nous portons dans le ciel ce que nous voyons sur la terre.” The idea of Yahweh, or Yah is palpably [[Égypte\|Egyptian]], the Ankh or ever-living One: the etymon, however, was learned at [[Babylone\|Babylon]] and is still found amongst the cuneiforms.}}{{refnote\|33\|The name still survives in the Shajarát al-Ashará, a clump of trees near the village Al-Ghájar (of the [[Tsiganes\|Gypsies]]?) at the foot of Hermon.}}{{refnote\|34\|I am not quite sure that Astarte is not primarily the planet Venus; but I can hardly doubt that Prof. Max Müller and Sir G. Cox are mistaken in bringing from [[Inde\|India]] [[Aphrodite]] the Dawn and her attendants, the Charites identified with the Vedic Harits. Of Ishtar in Accadia, however, Roscher seems to have proved that she is distinctly the Moon sinking into Amenti (the west, the Underworld) in search of her lost spouse Izdubar, the Sun-god. This again is pure Egyptianism.}}{{refnote\|35\|In this classical land of Venus the worship of Ishtar-Ashtaroth is by no means obsolete. The Metáwali heretics, a people of [[Perse\|Persian]] descent and Shiite tenets, and the peasantry of “Bilád B’sharrah,” which I would derive from Bayt Ashirah, still pilgrimage to the ruins and address their vows to the Sayyidat al-Kabírah, the Great Lady. Orthodox [[Islam\|Moslems]] accuse them of abominable orgies and point to the lamps and rags which they suspend to a tree entitled Shajarat al-Sitt—the Lady’s tree—an Acacia Albida which, according to some travellers, is found only here and at Sayda (Sidon) where an avenue exists. The people of Kasrawán, a Christian province in the [[Liban\|Libanus]], inhabited by a peculiarly prurient race, also hold high festival under the farfamed Cedars, and their women sacrifice to Venus like the Kadashah of the [[Phénicie\|Phœnicians]]. This survival of old superstition is unknown to missionary “Handbooks,” but amply deserves the study of the anthropologist.}}{{refnote\|36\|Some commentators understand “the tabernacles sacred to the reproductive powers of women;” and the Rabbis declare that the emblem was the figure of a setting hen.}}{{refnote\|37\|“Dog” is applied by the older [[Juifs\|Jews]] to the Sodomite and the Catamite; and thus they understand the “price of a dog” which could not be brought into the Temple (Deut. xxiii. 18). I have noticed it in one of the derivations of cinædus and can only remark that it is a vile libel upon the canine tribe.}}{{refnote\|38\|Her name was Maachah and her title, according to some, “King’s mother”: she founded the sect of Communists who rejected marriage and made adultery and incest part of worship in their splendid temple. Such were the Basilians and the Carpocratians, followed in the [[XIe siècle\|xi{{Exp\|th}} century]] by Tranchelin, whose sectarians, the Turlupins, long infested Savoy.}}{{refnote\|39\|A noted exception is Vienna remarkable for the enormous development of the virginal bosom, which soon becomes pendulent.}}{{refnote\|40\|Gen. xxxviii. 2-11. Amongst the classics [[Hermès\|Mercury]] taught the “Art of le Thalaba” to his son Pan who wandered about the mountains distraught with love for the Nymph Echo and Pan passed it on to the pastors. See Thalaba in Mirabeau.}}{{refnote\|41\|The reader of [[Les mille et une nuits\|The Nights]] has remarked how often the “he” in [[poésie arabe\|Arabic poetry]] denotes a “she”; but the [[Arabes\|Arab]], when uncontaminated by travel, ignores pederasty, and the Arab poet is a Badawi.}}{{refnote\|42\|So [[Muhammad\|Mohammed]] addressed his girl-wife Ayishah in the masculine.}}{{refnote\|43\|So amongst the [[Empire romain\|Romans]] we have the Iatroliptæ, youths or girls who wiped the gymnast’s perspiring body with swan’s-down, a practice renewed by the professors of “Massage”; Unctores who applied perfumes and essences; Fricatrices and Tractatrices or shampooers; Dropacistæ, corn-cutters; Alipilarii who plucked the hair, etc. etc. etc.}}{{refnote\|44\|It is a parody on the well-known song (Roebuck i. sect. 2, No. 1602):<br><br><center>The goldsmith knows the worth of gold, jewellers worth of jewelry;<br>The worth of rose Bulbul can tell and Kambar’s worth his lord, Ali.</center>}}		{{Citation longue\|reftype=1\|refstart=25\|refnotes={{refnote\|25\|This magnificent country, which the petty jealousies of Europe condemn, like the glorious regions about Constantinople, to mere barbarism, is tenanted by three Moslem races. The [[Berbères\|Berbers]], who call themselves Tamazight (plur. of Amazigh), are the Gætulian indigenes speaking an Africo-Semitic tongue (see Essai de Grammaire Kabyle, etc., par A. Hanoteau, Paris, Benjamin Duprat). The [[Arabes\|Arabs]], descended from the conquerors in our [[VIIIe siècle\|eighth century]], are mostly nomads and camelbreeders. Third and last are the Moors proper, the race dwelling in towns, a mixed breed originally Arabian but modified by six centuries of [[Espagne\|Spanish]] residence and showing by thickness of feature and a parchment-coloured skin, resembling the American Octaroon’s, a negro innervation of old date. The latter are well described in “Morocco and the Moors,” etc. (Sampson Low and Co., 1876), by my late friend Dr. Arthur Leared, whose work I should like to see reprinted.}}{{refnote\|26\|Thus somewhat agreeing with one of the multitudinous modern theories that the Pentapolis was destroyed by discharges of meteoric stones during a tremendous thunderstorm. Possible, but where are the stones?}}{{refnote\|27\|To this Iranian domination I attribute the use of many [[Perse\|Persic]] words which are not yet obsolete in [[Égypte\|Egypt]]. “Bakhshísh,” for instance, is not intelligible in the Moslem regions west of the Nile Valley and for a present the Moors say Hadíyah, regalo or favor.}}{{refnote\|28\|Arnobius and Tertullian, with the arrogance of their caste and its miserable ignorance of that symbolism which often concealed from vulgar eyes the most precious mysteries, used to taunt the heathen for praying to deities whose sex they ignored: “Consuistis in precibus ‘Seu tu Deus seu tu Dea,’ dicere!” These men would know everything; they made God the merest work of man’s brains and armed him with a despotism of omnipotence which rendered their creation truly dreadful.}}{{refnote\|29\|Gallus lit. {{=}} a cock, in pornologic parlance is a capon, a [[castrat]]o.}}{{refnote\|30\|The texts justifying or enjoining [[castration]] are Matt. xviii. 8-9; Mark ix. 43-47; Luke xxiii. 29 and Col. iii. 5. [[Paul de Tarse\|St. Paul]] preached (1 Corin. vii. 29) that a man should live with his wife as if he had none. The Abelian heretics of Africa abstained from women because Abel died virginal. Origen mutilated himself after interpreting too rigorously Matt. xix. 12, and was duly excommunicated. But his disciple, the Arab Valerius, founded (A.D. [[250]]) the castrated sect called Valerians who, persecuted and dispersed by the Emperors Constantine and Justinian, became the spiritual fathers of the modern Skopzis. These eunuchs first appeared in [[Russie\|Russia]] at the end of the [[XIe siècle\|eleventh century]], when two Greeks, John and Jephrem, were metropolitans of Kiew: the former was brought thither in A.D. [[1089]] by Princess Anna Wassewolodowna and is called by the chronicles Nawjè or the Corpse. But in the early part of the [[XVIIIe siècle\|last century]] ([[1715]]-[[1733]]) a sect arose in the circle of Uglitseh and in Moscow, at first called Clisti or flagellants which developed into the modern Skopzi. For this extensive subject see De Stein (Zeitschrift für Ethn. Berlin, 1875) and Mantegazza, chapt. vi.}}{{refnote\|31\|See the marvellously absurd description of the glorious “Dead Sea” in the Purchas v. 84.}}{{refnote\|32\|Jehovah here is made to play an evil part by destroying men instead of teaching them better. But, “Nous faisons les Dieux à notre image et nous portons dans le ciel ce que nous voyons sur la terre.” The idea of Yahweh, or Yah is palpably [[Égypte\|Egyptian]], the Ankh or ever-living One: the etymon, however, was learned at [[Babylone\|Babylon]] and is still found amongst the cuneiforms.}}{{refnote\|33\|The name still survives in the Shajarát al-Ashará, a clump of trees near the village Al-Ghájar (of the [[Tsiganes\|Gypsies]]?) at the foot of Hermon.}}{{refnote\|34\|I am not quite sure that Astarte is not primarily the planet Venus; but I can hardly doubt that Prof. Max Müller and Sir G. Cox are mistaken in bringing from [[Inde\|India]] [[Aphrodite]] the Dawn and her attendants, the Charites identified with the Vedic Harits. Of Ishtar in Accadia, however, Roscher seems to have proved that she is distinctly the Moon sinking into Amenti (the west, the Underworld) in search of her lost spouse Izdubar, the Sun-god. This again is pure Egyptianism.}}{{refnote\|35\|In this classical land of Venus the worship of Ishtar-Ashtaroth is by no means obsolete. The Metáwali heretics, a people of [[Perse\|Persian]] descent and Shiite tenets, and the peasantry of “Bilád B’sharrah,” which I would derive from Bayt Ashirah, still pilgrimage to the ruins and address their vows to the Sayyidat al-Kabírah, the Great Lady. Orthodox [[Islam\|Moslems]] accuse them of abominable orgies and point to the lamps and rags which they suspend to a tree entitled Shajarat al-Sitt—the Lady’s tree—an Acacia Albida which, according to some travellers, is found only here and at Sayda (Sidon) where an avenue exists. The people of Kasrawán, a Christian province in the [[Liban\|Libanus]], inhabited by a peculiarly prurient race, also hold high festival under the farfamed Cedars, and their women sacrifice to Venus like the Kadashah of the [[Phénicie\|Phœnicians]]. This survival of old superstition is unknown to missionary “Handbooks,” but amply deserves the study of the anthropologist.}}{{refnote\|36\|Some commentators understand “the tabernacles sacred to the reproductive powers of women;” and the Rabbis declare that the emblem was the figure of a setting hen.}}{{refnote\|37\|“Dog” is applied by the older [[Juifs\|Jews]] to the Sodomite and the Catamite; and thus they understand the “price of a dog” which could not be brought into the Temple (Deut. xxiii. 18). I have noticed it in one of the derivations of cinædus and can only remark that it is a vile libel upon the canine tribe.}}{{refnote\|38\|Her name was Maachah and her title, according to some, “King’s mother”: she founded the sect of Communists who rejected marriage and made adultery and incest part of worship in their splendid temple. Such were the Basilians and the Carpocratians, followed in the [[XIe siècle\|xi{{Exp\|th}} century]] by Tranchelin, whose sectarians, the Turlupins, long infested Savoy.}}{{refnote\|39\|A noted exception is Vienna remarkable for the enormous development of the virginal bosom, which soon becomes pendulent.}}{{refnote\|40\|Gen. xxxviii. 2-11. Amongst the classics [[Hermès\|Mercury]] taught the “Art of le Thalaba” to his son Pan who wandered about the mountains distraught with love for the Nymph Echo and Pan passed it on to the pastors. See Thalaba in Mirabeau.}}{{refnote\|41\|The reader of [[Les mille et une nuits\|The Nights]] has remarked how often the “he” in [[poésie arabe\|Arabic poetry]] denotes a “she”; but the [[Arabes\|Arab]], when uncontaminated by travel, ignores pederasty, and the Arab poet is a Badawi.}}{{refnote\|42\|So [[Muhammad\|Mohammed]] addressed his girl-wife Ayishah in the masculine.}}{{refnote\|43\|So amongst the [[Empire romain\|Romans]] we have the Iatroliptæ, youths or girls who wiped the gymnast’s perspiring body with swan’s-down, a practice renewed by the professors of “Massage”; Unctores who applied perfumes and essences; Fricatrices and Tractatrices or shampooers; Dropacistæ, corn-cutters; Alipilarii who plucked the hair, etc. etc. etc.}}{{refnote\|44\|It is a parody on the well-known song (Roebuck i. sect. 2, No. 1602):<br><br><center>The goldsmith knows the worth of gold, jewellers worth of jewelry;<br>The worth of rose Bulbul can tell and Kambar’s worth his lord, Ali.</center>}}
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	[[Syrie\|Syria]] has not forgotten her old “praxis”. At Damascus I found some noteworthy cases amongst the religious of the great Amawi Mosque. As for the [[Druses]] we have Burckhardt’s authority (Travels in Syria, etc., p. 202), “unnatural propensities are very common amongst them.”		[[Syrie\|Syria]] has not forgotten her old “praxis”. At Damascus I found some noteworthy cases amongst the religious of the great Amawi Mosque. As for the [[Druses]] we have Burckhardt’s authority (Travels in Syria, etc., p. 202), “unnatural propensities are very common amongst them.”

	The [[Zone sotadique\|Sotadic Zone]] covers the whole of Asia Minor and [[Mésopotamie\|Mesopotamia]] now occupied by the “unspeakable [[Peuples turcs\|Turk]]”, a race of born pederasts; and in the former region we first notice a peculiarity of the feminine figure, the mammæ inclinatæ, jacentes et pannosæ, which prevails over all this part of the belt. Whilst the women to the north and south have, with local exceptions, the mammæ stantes of the European virgin,{{refnote\|39}} those of [[Turquie\|Turkey]], [[Perse\|Persia]], [[Afghanistan]] and [[Cachemire\|Kashmir]] lose all the fine curves of the bosom, sometimes even before the first child; and after it the hemispheres take the form of bags. This cannot result from climate only; the women of Marathá-land, inhabiting a damper and hotter region than Kashmir, are noted for fine firm breasts even after parturition. Le Vice of course prevails more in the cities and towns of Asiatic Turkey than in the villages; yet even these are infected; while the nomad Turcomans contrast badly in this point with the [[Tsiganes\|Gypsies]], those Badawin of [[Inde\|India]]. The [[Kurdes\|Kurd population]] is of Iranian origin, which means that the evil is deeply rooted: I have noted in [[Les mille et une nuits\|The Nights]] that the great and glorious [[Saladin]] was a habitual pederast. The [[Arménie\|Armenians]], as their national character is, will prostitute themselves for gain but prefer women to boys: Georgia supplied [[Turquie\|Turkey]] with catamites whilst Circassia sent concubines. In [[Mésopotamie\|Mesopotamia]] the barbarous invader has almost obliterated the ancient civilisation which is antedated only by the Nilotic: the mysteries of old [[Babylone\|Babylon]] nowhere survive save in certain obscure tribes like the Mandæans, the Devil-worshippers and the Alí-iláhi. Entering [[Perse\|Persia]] we find the reverse of Armenia; and, despite Herodotus, I believe that Iran borrowed her pathologic love from the peoples of the Tigris-Euphrates Valley and not from the then insignificant [[Grèce antique\|Greeks]]. But whatever may be its origin, the corruption is now bred in the bone. It begins in boyhood and many Persians account for it by paternal severity. Youths arrived at puberty find none of the facilities with which Europe supplies fornication. [[Masturbation\|Onanism]]{{refnote\|40}} is to a certain extent discouraged by [[Circoncision\|circumcision]], and meddling with the father’s slave-girls and concubines would be risking cruel punishment if not death. Hence they use each other by turns, a “puerile practice” known as Alish-Takish, the Lat. facere vicibus or mutuum facere. Temperament, media, and atavism recommend the custom to the general; and after marrying and begetting heirs, Paterfamilias returns to the Ganymede. Hence all the odes of [[~~Hafez~~-e Shîrâzî\|Hafiz]] are addressed to youths, as proved by such Arabic exclamations as ’Afáka ’llah {{=}} Allah assain thee (masculine){{refnote\|41}}: the object is often fanciful but it would be held coarse and immodest to address an imaginary girl.{{refnote\|42}} An illustration of the penchant is told at Shiraz concerning a certain Mujtahid, the head of the Shi’ah creed, corresponding with a prince-archbishop in Europe. A friend once said to him, “There is a question I would fain address to your Eminence but I lack the daring to do so.” “Ask and fear not”, replied the Divine. “It is this, O Mujtahid! Figure thee in a garden of roses and hyacinths with the evening breeze waving the cypress-heads, a fair youth of twenty sitting by thy side and the assurance of perfect privacy. What, prithee, would be the result?” The holy man bowed the chin of doubt upon the collar of meditation; and, too honest to lie, presently whispered, “Allah defend me from such temptation of Satan!” Yet even in [[Perse\|Persia]] men have not been wanting who have done their utmost to uproot the Vice: in the same Shiraz they speak of a father who, finding his son in flagrant delict, put him to death like Brutus or Lynch of Galway. Such isolated cases, however, can effect nothing. Chardin tells us that houses of male [[prostitution]] were common in Persia whilst those of women were unknown: the same is the case in the present day and the boys are prepared with extreme care by diet, baths, depilation, unguents and a host of artists in cosmetics.{{refnote\|43}} Le Vice is looked upon at most as a peccadillo and its mention crops up in every jest-hook. When the Isfahan man mocked Shaykh [[Saadi\|Sa’adi]] by comparing the bald pates of Shirazian elders to the bottom of a lotá, a brass cup with a wide-necked opening used in the Hammam, the witty poet turned its aperture upwards and thereto likened the well-abused podex of an Isfahani youth. Another favourite piece of Shirazian “chaff” is to declare that when an Isfahan father would set up his son in business he provides him with a pound of rice, meaning that he can sell the result as compost for the kitchen-garden, and with the price buy another meal: hence the saying Khakh-i-pái káhú {{=}} the soil at the lettuce-root. The Isfahanis retort with the name of a station or halting-place between the two cities where, under pretence of making travellers stow away their riding-gear, many a Shirázi had been raped: hence “Zín o takaltú tú bi-bar” {{=}} carry within saddle and saddle-cloth! A favourite Persian punishment for strangers caught in the Harim or Gynæceum is to strip and throw them and expose them to the embraces of the grooms and negro-slaves. I once asked a Shirazi how penetration was possible if the patient resisted with all the force of the sphincter muscle: he smiled and said, “Ah, we Persians know a trick to get over that; we apply a sharpened tent-peg to the crupper-bone (os coccygis) and knock till he opens.” A well-known missionary to the East during the last generation was subjected to this gross insult by one of the Persian Prince-governors, whom he had infuriated by his conversion-mania: in his memoirs he alludes to it by mentioning his “dishonoured person;” but English readers cannot comprehend the full significance of the confession. About the same time Shaykh Nasr, Governor of Bushire, a man famed for facetious blackguardism, used to invite European youngsters serving in the Bombay Marine and ply them with liquor till they were insensible. Next morning the middies mostly complained that the champagne had caused a curious irritation and soreness in la parte-poste. The same Eastern “Scrogin” would ask his guests if they had ever seen a man-cannon (Ádami-top); and, on their replying in the negative, a greybeard slave was dragged in blaspheming and struggling with all his strength. He was presently placed on all fours and firmly held by the extremities; his bag-trousers were let down and a dozen peppercorns were inserted ano suo: the target was a sheet of paper held at a reasonable distance; the match was applied by a pinch of cayenne in the nostrils; the sneeze started the grapeshot and the number of hits on the butt decided the bets. We can hardly wonder at the loose conduct of Persian women perpetually mortified by marital pederasty. During the unhappy campaign of [[1856]]-57 in which, with the exception of a few brilliant skirmishes, we gained no glory, Sir James Outram and the Bombay army showing how badly they could work, there was a formal outburst of the Harims; and even women of princely birth could not be kept out of the officers’ quarters.		The [[Zone sotadique\|Sotadic Zone]] covers the whole of Asia Minor and [[Mésopotamie\|Mesopotamia]] now occupied by the “unspeakable [[Peuples turcs\|Turk]]”, a race of born pederasts; and in the former region we first notice a peculiarity of the feminine figure, the mammæ inclinatæ, jacentes et pannosæ, which prevails over all this part of the belt. Whilst the women to the north and south have, with local exceptions, the mammæ stantes of the European virgin,{{refnote\|39}} those of [[Turquie\|Turkey]], [[Perse\|Persia]], [[Afghanistan]] and [[Cachemire\|Kashmir]] lose all the fine curves of the bosom, sometimes even before the first child; and after it the hemispheres take the form of bags. This cannot result from climate only; the women of Marathá-land, inhabiting a damper and hotter region than Kashmir, are noted for fine firm breasts even after parturition. Le Vice of course prevails more in the cities and towns of Asiatic Turkey than in the villages; yet even these are infected; while the nomad Turcomans contrast badly in this point with the [[Tsiganes\|Gypsies]], those Badawin of [[Inde\|India]]. The [[Kurdes\|Kurd population]] is of Iranian origin, which means that the evil is deeply rooted: I have noted in [[Les mille et une nuits\|The Nights]] that the great and glorious [[Saladin]] was a habitual pederast. The [[Arménie\|Armenians]], as their national character is, will prostitute themselves for gain but prefer women to boys: Georgia supplied [[Turquie\|Turkey]] with catamites whilst Circassia sent concubines. In [[Mésopotamie\|Mesopotamia]] the barbarous invader has almost obliterated the ancient civilisation which is antedated only by the Nilotic: the mysteries of old [[Babylone\|Babylon]] nowhere survive save in certain obscure tribes like the Mandæans, the Devil-worshippers and the Alí-iláhi. Entering [[Perse\|Persia]] we find the reverse of Armenia; and, despite Herodotus, I believe that Iran borrowed her pathologic love from the peoples of the Tigris-Euphrates Valley and not from the then insignificant [[Grèce antique\|Greeks]]. But whatever may be its origin, the corruption is now bred in the bone. It begins in boyhood and many Persians account for it by paternal severity. Youths arrived at puberty find none of the facilities with which Europe supplies fornication. [[Masturbation\|Onanism]]{{refnote\|40}} is to a certain extent discouraged by [[Circoncision\|circumcision]], and meddling with the father’s slave-girls and concubines would be risking cruel punishment if not death. Hence they use each other by turns, a “puerile practice” known as Alish-Takish, the Lat. facere vicibus or mutuum facere. Temperament, media, and atavism recommend the custom to the general; and after marrying and begetting heirs, Paterfamilias returns to the Ganymede. Hence all the odes of [[Hâfez-e Shîrâzî\|Hafiz]] are addressed to youths, as proved by such Arabic exclamations as ’Afáka ’llah {{=}} Allah assain thee (masculine){{refnote\|41}}: the object is often fanciful but it would be held coarse and immodest to address an imaginary girl.{{refnote\|42}} An illustration of the penchant is told at Shiraz concerning a certain Mujtahid, the head of the Shi’ah creed, corresponding with a prince-archbishop in Europe. A friend once said to him, “There is a question I would fain address to your Eminence but I lack the daring to do so.” “Ask and fear not”, replied the Divine. “It is this, O Mujtahid! Figure thee in a garden of roses and hyacinths with the evening breeze waving the cypress-heads, a fair youth of twenty sitting by thy side and the assurance of perfect privacy. What, prithee, would be the result?” The holy man bowed the chin of doubt upon the collar of meditation; and, too honest to lie, presently whispered, “Allah defend me from such temptation of Satan!” Yet even in [[Perse\|Persia]] men have not been wanting who have done their utmost to uproot the Vice: in the same Shiraz they speak of a father who, finding his son in flagrant delict, put him to death like Brutus or Lynch of Galway. Such isolated cases, however, can effect nothing. Chardin tells us that houses of male [[prostitution]] were common in Persia whilst those of women were unknown: the same is the case in the present day and the boys are prepared with extreme care by diet, baths, depilation, unguents and a host of artists in cosmetics.{{refnote\|43}} Le Vice is looked upon at most as a peccadillo and its mention crops up in every jest-hook. When the Isfahan man mocked Shaykh [[Saadi\|Sa’adi]] by comparing the bald pates of Shirazian elders to the bottom of a lotá, a brass cup with a wide-necked opening used in the Hammam, the witty poet turned its aperture upwards and thereto likened the well-abused podex of an Isfahani youth. Another favourite piece of Shirazian “chaff” is to declare that when an Isfahan father would set up his son in business he provides him with a pound of rice, meaning that he can sell the result as compost for the kitchen-garden, and with the price buy another meal: hence the saying Khakh-i-pái káhú {{=}} the soil at the lettuce-root. The Isfahanis retort with the name of a station or halting-place between the two cities where, under pretence of making travellers stow away their riding-gear, many a Shirázi had been raped: hence “Zín o takaltú tú bi-bar” {{=}} carry within saddle and saddle-cloth! A favourite Persian punishment for strangers caught in the Harim or Gynæceum is to strip and throw them and expose them to the embraces of the grooms and negro-slaves. I once asked a Shirazi how penetration was possible if the patient resisted with all the force of the sphincter muscle: he smiled and said, “Ah, we Persians know a trick to get over that; we apply a sharpened tent-peg to the crupper-bone (os coccygis) and knock till he opens.” A well-known missionary to the East during the last generation was subjected to this gross insult by one of the Persian Prince-governors, whom he had infuriated by his conversion-mania: in his memoirs he alludes to it by mentioning his “dishonoured person;” but English readers cannot comprehend the full significance of the confession. About the same time Shaykh Nasr, Governor of Bushire, a man famed for facetious blackguardism, used to invite European youngsters serving in the Bombay Marine and ply them with liquor till they were insensible. Next morning the middies mostly complained that the champagne had caused a curious irritation and soreness in la parte-poste. The same Eastern “Scrogin” would ask his guests if they had ever seen a man-cannon (Ádami-top); and, on their replying in the negative, a greybeard slave was dragged in blaspheming and struggling with all his strength. He was presently placed on all fours and firmly held by the extremities; his bag-trousers were let down and a dozen peppercorns were inserted ano suo: the target was a sheet of paper held at a reasonable distance; the match was applied by a pinch of cayenne in the nostrils; the sneeze started the grapeshot and the number of hits on the butt decided the bets. We can hardly wonder at the loose conduct of Persian women perpetually mortified by marital pederasty. During the unhappy campaign of [[1856]]-57 in which, with the exception of a few brilliant skirmishes, we gained no glory, Sir James Outram and the Bombay army showing how badly they could work, there was a formal outburst of the Harims; and even women of princely birth could not be kept out of the officers’ quarters.

	The cities of [[Afghanistan]] and Sind are thoroughly saturated with Persian vice, and the people sing		The cities of [[Afghanistan]] and Sind are thoroughly saturated with Persian vice, and the people sing

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