304 pp. "This book is a survey of the different attitudes towards male homosexuality, from the authors of Antiquity, through the artists of the Renaissance, to the writers and painters of the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Europe and America. It also presents, for the first time, a number of anonymous erotic texts which have long been buried in private collections or in the rich inner recesses of the British Museum in London and the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris. Finally, selections from contemporary authors, who can speak openly about matters their ancestors often had to veil, are given by way of contrast."--Preface
