Sotadic

The Sotadic Zone covers the whole of Asia Minor and Mesopotamia now occupied by the “unspeakable Turk,” a race of born pederasts; and in the former region we first notice a peculiarity of the feminine figure, the mammæ inclinatæ, jacentes et pannosæ, which prevails over all this part of the belt.

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Depilatus, divellere pilos, glaber, laevis and nates pervellere are allusions to the Sotadic toilette.

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North of the Sotadic Zone we find local but notable instances.

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The only physical cause for the practice which suggests itself to me and that must be owned to be purely conjectural, is that within the Sotadic Zone there is a blending of the masculine and feminine temperaments, a crasis which elsewhere occurs only sporadically.

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Running eastward the Sotadic Zone narrows, embracing Asia

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It then embraces the South Sea Islands and the New World where, at the time of its discovery, Sotadic love was, with some exceptions, an established racial institution.

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Outside the Sotadic Zone, I have said, Le Vice is sporadic, not endemic: yet the physical and moral effect of great cities where puberty, they say, is induced earlier than in country sites, has been the same in most lands, causing modesty to decay and pederasty to flourish.

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Here too we have an explanation of Sotadic love in its second stage, when it became, like cannibalism, a matter of superstition.

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Within the Sotadic Zone the Vice is popular and endemic, held at the worst to be a mere peccadillo, whilst the races to the North and South of the limits here defined practice it only sporadically amid the opprobrium of their fellows who, as a rule, are physically incapable of performing the operation and look upon it with the liveliest disgust.

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Beyond India, I have stated, the Sotadic Zone begins to broaden out, embracing all China, Turkistan and Japan.

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