Paige McLoughlin’s Reviews > Unruly Desires: American Sailors and Homosexualities in the Age of Sail > Status Update

Homo erotic relations in Melville's stories.

Mahan's correspondence with a "really close" fellow seaman.

Gay sex on whaling ships.

Turkish excursions in the early nineteenth century and American POWs in Dartmoor prison during the War of 1812.

most sailors had access to port city brothels on a regular basis in the nineteenth century. Homosexual behavior wasn't a substitute for a lack of heterosexual contact. No it was a preference of bisexual and homosexual sailors.

Interesting homosexuality as identity wasn't necessarily a category for the nineteenth century, but sodomy still happened a lot at sea and may have been one of the freedoms of being a sailor.

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