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Regarding the traditional societies of medieval and early modern Europe, the most persuasive view now holds that homosexual behavior usually occurred between an "active" adult and a "passive" adolescent, and that most males who engaged in sex with other males probably also had sexual relations with females. Only in the eighteenth century, and then, it seems, above all in northwestern Europe (England, the Netherlands, and France), did this pattern gradually begin to be replaced by a new model. After 1700 adult males are frequently found having sex with other adult males, the rigid sexual roles of the past appear to have become more fluid, homosexuality was commonly associated with effeminacy, and distinctive subcul-tures developed.
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Bernardino of Siena (critic age in sodomy)
...he specified the age of thirty-two or thirty-three as a crucial turning point in males' sexual lives. He believed that it was especially hard for men past this age to give up a passion for sodomy, so he urged youths to do so while still young: "This cursed vice is rarely abandoned, especially when you have grown old in it and pass 32 years of age." Again: "The devil blinds him so badly that if he passes 33 years of age, it's nearly impossible for him to reform. He can, but it's very hard to stop . . . it's nearly impossible.
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