[14] This has now been very thoroughly done by Prof. F. Karsch-Haack in a large book, Das Gleichgeschlechtliche Leben der Naturvölker, 1911. An earlier and shorter study by the same author was published in the Jahrbuch für sexuelle Zwischenstufen, Bd. iii, 1901.
[15] See a brief and rather inconclusive treatment of the question by Bruns Meissner, "Assyriologische Studien," iv, Mitteilungen der Vorderasiatischen Gesellschaft, 1907.
[16] Monatshefte für praktische Dermatologie, Bd. xxix, 1899, p. 409.
[17] Hirschfeld, Die Homosexualität, p. 739.
[18] Beardmore also notes that sodomy is "regularly indulged in" in New Guinea on this account. (Journal of the Anthropological Institute, May, 1890, p. 464.)
[19] I have been told by medical men in India that it is specially common among the Sikhs, the finest soldier-race in India.
[20] Foley, Bulletin Société d'Anthropologie de Paris, October 9, 1879.
[21] See, e.g., O. Kiefer, "Plato's Stellung zu Homosexualität," Jahrbuch für sexuelle Zwischenstufen, vol. vii.
[22] Bethe, op. cit., p. 440. In old Japan (before the revolution of 1868) also, however, according to F. S. Krauss (Das Geschlechtsleben der Japaner, ch. xiii, 1911), the homosexual relations between knights and their pages resembled those of ancient Greece.
[23] Archiv für Kriminal-Anthropologie, 1906, p. 106.