![]() ![]() The treason consisted variously of corrupting a king, plotting against a king, or, in fact, bedding a queen. ![]() ![]() Are you thinking what I am thinking? In Purdy’s novels, the characters are, in fact, punished, just not for homosexual acts. Remember that noblewomen in part of the Middle Ages lived in the women’s quarters, sleeping apaart from their menfolk unless required. ![]() In the case of women, it is likely no one even credited them with sexuality or at least regarded it as a threat worth addressing. Specific to Purdy’s books, the men and women who are gay or bisexual are for the most part the elite, with their own society and rules and immunity from most of the legal pettiness of their society. As with tagging unpopular women as witches, denouncing someone as homosexual was a handy way to blow off frustrations of your own or to gain from their disenfranchisement. Victimizers of young people, gay or straight, are another matter than simply gay people exercising their predilection to love adults of their own gender. My belief is that male prostitutes would have some protection from those who frequented them, at least in terms of whether they were out- ted and punished. The people likely to be most at risk would be in three camps: male prostitutes or others who were indiscrete, people who victimized children, and people who got on the wrong side of someone with their own reasons to want to see them out of the way. ![]()
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