Link Directory
Last Updated: Summer 2007
Historical & Anthropological
Sites that discuss amaros (pedophilia) and related topics in a historical or anthropological context.
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Age of Aisha (ra) at time of marriage | A discussion of the historic context of the marriage of Prophet Mohammed to a young girl. |
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Androphile Gay History Project — The World History of Male Love |    Searchable database on the history of male love. Contains several references to boylove in ancient cultures. |
| Bibliography of Childhood in Antiquity | List of online and offline sources dealing with childhood in ancient times. | |
| Childhood: A Cultural Study of Sexuality and Violence | Archived version of the site originally published by Alejandro Levis at the Rancho Alma Pintada in Bolivia. A comparative study of child sexuality in a variety of Western and non-Western civilizations. The study demonstrates that sexual violence against children is less frequent in cultures which are not sexually repressive. | |
| Child Marriage and Complex Families (cemithualtin) among the Ancient Aztec (Nahua) | A study of ancient Aztec marriage customs as well as the societal roles of children. Statistical study of the average marriage ages amongst aboriginal communities. | |
| Child Marriage: Research and Analysis | A series of articles discussing child marriage in India and the effect of outlawing the practice on society. | |
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Kumari: The Living Goddess | A history of the Nepalese tradition of venerating a pre-pubescent girl as the living incarnation of the goddess Taleju Bhawani. |
| Growing Up Sexually | An exhaustive study of the cultural factors that govern affect the sexuality of children. The work deals with theoretical principals regarding sexual development, provides ethno-historical data indicating the development of youth sexuality throughout history in various cultural contexts and contains an extensive bibliography of its source materials. | |
| Introduction to Cultural Anthropology: The Sambia (Archive) | A discussion of the sexual attitudes and practices of the Sambia, a tribe in New Guinea. | |
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Male Love in Ancient Greece | The history and cultural context of man-boy sexual relationships in ancient Greek society. |
| Marriage in Ancient Egypt | A discussion of marriage conventions in ancient Egypt, including the marriage of pubescents, incestuous unions and the marriage of older men to young girls. | |
| Pais | Links on the History of Adult Attraction to Young People. | |
| The Pre-Pubescent Lover in Greek Literature | David Konstan’s essay exploring the attraction of Greek women to young boys in ancient Greek literature. | |
| Prostitution in the Byzantine Holy Land | Claudine Dauphin explores the role of prostitution, including child prostitution, in Byzantium. Among other things she touches on the emergence of girls as sexual objects whereas in former times boys were more widely sought after. | |
| Sexuality in Fifth Century Athens | A paper by Brian Arkins discussing the sexuality and marriage customs in fifth century Athens, including the roles of pederasty and the marriage of adolescent girls. | |
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Talmud and the Age of Consent | A discussion of Talmudic law concerning child marriage and its interpretation in modern practice. |
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Le temps des jeunes filles dans la cité grecque : Nausicaa, Phrasikleia, Timareta et les autres | An essay about maidenhood in ancient Greece and how the maiden was elevated in literature, while her future in real life, home and family, was often much more ordinary. French text with an English abstract. |
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Urubu-Kaapor Girls’ Puberty Rites (PDF) | Rites of passage practiced in an Amazon tribe to prepare pubescent girls for marriage. PDF format. |
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White Girlhood, Rape and the Courts in the Postbellum South (Archive) | Peter Bardaglio disucsses the tendency of courts and society in post-war southern states to cling to the belief that rape and child molestation were primarily perpetrated by black men, while the evidence showed clearly that the majority of abuse took place in the home. |
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The Young Marriage of Aishah | A discussion of the passages in the Hadith that talk about the age of Aishah when she married Mohammed, as well as an analysis of the cultural conditions of the time and the effect of Western outrage on Muslim interpretation of it. |
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