SODOMY AND THE PIRATE TRADITION

SODOMY AND THE PIRATE TRADITION
English Sea Rovers in the 17th-Century Caribbean
B. R. Burg

 

Historian B. R. Burg investigates the social and sexual world of these sea rovers, a tightly bound brotherhood of men engaged in almost constant warfare. What, he asks, did these men, often on the high seas for years at a time, do for sexual fulfilment? Buccaneer sexuality differed widely from that of other all-male institutions such as prisons, for it existed not within a regimented structure of rule, regulations, and oppressive supervision, but instead operated in a society in which widespread toleration of homosexuality was the norm and conditions encouraged its practice. 

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215 pages, paperback