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"As defined by the ancient civil or canonical codes, sodomy was a category of forbidden acts their perpetrator was nothing more than the juridical subject of them. The nineteenth-century homosexual became a personage, a past, a case history, and a childhood, in addition to being a type of life, a life form, and a morphology, with an indiscreet anatomy and a possibly mysterious physiology. Nothing that went into his [sic] total composition was unaffected by his sexuality. It was everywhere presen...