I'm sure in the Ottoman Empire there were harems where they omitted the odalisques and just kept eunuchs.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | August 14, 2021 1:55 PM |
There were definitely beautiful young men and teen boys kept in some harems, some notable aristocratic ones taken during the fall of Constantinople
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | August 14, 2021 1:59 PM |
If you go to Saudi Arabia, some of the princes are into some pretty freaky shit.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | August 14, 2021 2:20 PM |
I read some of these books at a store in WeHo years ago and had a raging hard on.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | August 14, 2021 6:46 PM |
R6 that must have been awkward.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | August 15, 2021 8:49 AM |
R6, and the worst part was it was at the Food4Less.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | January 2, 2022 2:18 PM |
Yes, there are some recorded cases:
King Mwanga II of Buganda (an African kingdom), had a harem with men: "Apparently, the most ultimate humiliation was to Mwanga when his male pages in his harem refused his sexual advances because of the new values that appeared in his kingdom."
Muslim-ruled Iberia also had male harems: "Evidence includes the behaviour of rulers, such as Abd al-Rahmn III, Al-Hakam II, Hisham II, and Al Mu'tamid, who openly kept male harems; the memoirs of Abdallah ibn Buluggin, last Zirid king of Granada, makes references to male prostitutes, who charged higher fees and had a higher class of clientele than did their female counter-parts."
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | January 2, 2022 3:28 PM |
Yeah, that "Beef and Noodles" guy (or whatever he was called) had a male harem.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | January 2, 2022 4:57 PM |
A bit off-topic but this does fascinate me.
It seems rich men everywhere can do whatever they want and don't have to ascribe to labels. In some parts of the Islamic world, there are practices of poor, rural teen boys and young men dressed up as women singing and dancing for an audience of wealthy, older men. These practices are old and predates Islam which condemns homosexuality.
I've heard of temple prostitutes in the Ancient world. They would engage in sex as a form of worship and were protected by the state. They are even mentioned in The Bible. There were male temple prostitutes who engaged in gay sex. Some historians theorize the homophobia and obsession with virginity in Judaism, Christianity and Islam originated as a backlash against the commonplace temple prostitution, the exploitative practices of pederasty and rape of male slaves and war captives.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | January 2, 2022 5:44 PM |
Do the pretty-faced male actor tarts of Miss Ryan Murphy count?
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | January 2, 2022 7:00 PM |
[quote] Is there such thing as a gay harem?
Yes. Spread over every weekend.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | January 2, 2022 7:02 PM |
[quote]R11: They are even mentioned in The Bible. There were male temple prostitutes who engaged in gay sex.
No, babe. The word found in texts like 1 Kings 14:24 (𝑞𝑒𝑑𝑒𝑠, or plural, 𝑞𝑒𝑑𝑒𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑚, cf. 1 Kings 15:12; 22:46; 2 Kings 23:7; Job 36:14), literally translated, means 'ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑦 𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑠.' They were temple functionaries in the service of the larger Canaanite/Hebrew pantheon, serving El Elyon and his consorts Anath, Asherah, and Astarte, as well as Shamash, Hadad, Mot, Dagon, Yam, Chemosh, Lotan, etc.. During the Hasmonean Era, these elements were purged in favor of a Yahweh-Only cult, also sometimes identified as the Deuteronomists. In the minds of the Deuteronomists, the worship of any deity besides YHWH was considered whoredom, and such practitioners were characterized in the literature as 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑡𝑒𝑠 (see Deuteronomy 23:17-18), even though there was no actual sexual activity involved. It was a case of religious propaganda, or invective.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | January 3, 2022 12:09 AM |
Italian Castrati were popular with men and women. Many doubled as prostitutes especially once they aged out of the opera. They were considered neither male nor female and they couldn't procreate. So they could be used by both sexes without the stigma.
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | January 3, 2022 3:26 PM |
Summer of My Zarid Soldier.
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | January 3, 2022 4:06 PM |
