Richard Burton - Sexual inversion lyrics

Looking at the phenomenon generally, so far as they have been recorded among various lower races, we seem bound to recognize that there is a widespread natural instinct impelling men towards h*mos**ual relationships, and that this has has been sometimes… seized upon and develop for advantageous social purposes. On the whole, however, unnatural intercourse (sodomy) has been regarded as an antisocial offense, and punishable sometimes by the most serious penalties that could be invented. This was the case… in ancient Mexico, in Peru, among the Persians, in China, and among the Hebrews and Mohammadans. There is abunant evidence to whow that h*mos**ual practices exist and have long existed in most parts of the world outside Europe, when subserving no obvious social or moral end. How far they can be a**ociated with congenital inversion is usually very doubtful. In China, for instance, it seems that there are special houses devoted to male prostitution., though less numerous than those devoted to females, for h*mos**uality cannot be considered common in China. .. When a rich man gives a feast he sends for women to cheer the repast by music and song, and for boys to serve at table and to entertain the guests by thier lively conversation. .. After the meal the lads generally return home with a considerable fee. What further occurs the Chinese say little about. It seems that real and deep affection is often born of these relations, at first platonic, but in the end becoming physical, not a matter of great concern in the eyes of the Chinese... In China, however, the law may be brought to action for attempts against nature even with mutual consent; the penalty is a hundred strokes with the bamboo and a month's imprisonment; if there is violence, the penalty is decapitation; i am not abe to say how far the law is a dead letter.