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Sinners and Citizens explores how sexual habits changed in Sweden during its development from an agrarian society into a modern welfare state. Jens Rydstr�m examines the history of homosexuality and bestiality in that country to consider why these sexual practices have been so closely linked in virtually all Western societies. He limns sharply the distinctive experience of rural life, showing that to regularly witness farm animals stirred passions and sparked ideas, especially among young farmhands. Based on medical journals, psychiatric reports, and court records from the period, as well as testimonies from men in diaries, letters, and interviews, Sinners and Citizens reveals that bestiality was once a dreaded crime in Sweden. But in time, mention of the practice disappeared completely from legal and medical debates. This, Rydstr�m contends, is because models of penetrative sodomy shifted from bestiality to homosexuality as Sweden transformed from a rural society into a more urban one. As the nation's economy and culture became less identified with the countryside, so too did its idea of deviant sexual behavior.

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  • Title Sinners and Citizens
  • Author Jens Rydstrom
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 400
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University Of Chicago Press, Chicago
  • Date November 15, 2003
  • ISBN 9780226732572
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Scandinavian
    • Sex & Gender: Gay
    • Topical: Lgbt

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Jens Rydstrm is an assistant professor of history at the University of Stockholm.
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