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However, keep in mind that (as in all instances of political unrest), the most marginalized people in society are often targets. Note on Russia/Ukraine: Russia and Ukraine were included in this study as the data collection began prior to the 2022 conflict. In this year’s update, we also added transgender murder rates, which weren’t included in our original 2019 study or the 2021 update. We utilized a mixed methods research design to create the index. We worked with academic researcher, Eliot Assoudeh PhD., to design the methodology and cross-reference all data. We created our LGBTQ+ travel safety index based on a total of ten ranking factors, each pertaining to the health and wellbeing of LGBTQ+ individuals. My source is undoubtedly more prestigious than yours and it was likely much better researched as well.We ranked 203 countries with available data, and then carefully examined LGBTQ+ rights for each country. The article I quoted above, on the other hand, is a PhD's contribution to a Cambridge University's book on gay literature. Needless to say, neither the pictures posted here nor the poetry I've seen can be described as platonic, and neither are the people portrayed child-looking. It makes Ottoman homosexuality out to be just some platonic contemplation of child male beauty practiced by Darwish mystics.
It's a poor source: it's just some article in a nationalist Turkish newspaper and its agenda is transparent - to downplay how mainstream homosexuality was in Ottoman Turkey. Why are you so obsessed to affirm that the Ottomans didn't practice homosexuality except for homosexual pedophilia? Is this an anti-Muslim thing? It bothers your anti-Islamic agenda that Muslims openly practiced more normal forms of homosexuality? Just say that it is so I can ignore you from now on.Īnd I'm acquainted with that article you're copying and pasting from. And the pictures portrayed here all show males, bearded and unbearded, who are clearly not pre-pubescent either.
The beloved, on the other hand, would behave in a capricious manner, employing various methods of shredding the lover’s emotions and making him uncertain of the continuity of the relationship and its final outcome." by AnonymousĬan you read? Nedim is quoted above saying unmistakably that nothing is more alluring in a male than his beard. "As long as the relationship lasted, the older man was expected to pine after his young beloved, shower him with expensive clothing and even buy him a house and other presents. This attraction would last until puberty when the boy would start to grow facial hair, in other words, became a man." The relationship was a close one including holding hands, arms over each other’s shoulders, even kissing but would lack an overt sexual component. Those youngsters who were “beardless, smooth-cheeked, handsome and sweet-tempered” attracted the attention of older men who had a higher position, more money, power, etc. In the latter case, it should be noted that boys as young as 7 were considered in Ottoman society to be old enough to leave the harem to go to school or be apprenticed or, at least among the poor, work.
"Leaving aside the issue of sodomy, which was interpreted as prostitution, but little punished and hardly respected, throughout Middle Eastern literature, there are many expressions of male admiration of males and in particular young boys. Again, (Muslim) dominance and submission. Ottoman poets, including Nedim, "celebrated" pre-pubescent boys, not men. Ottoman poets celebrated a variety of male partners