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Lousy day at work today. In short, something became a huge issue that A) should not have been an issue, at least not as large as it turned out to be and B) probably wouldn't have been an issue had I been there. It's also related to a practice that was started before I got there, so I wasn't able to answer any of the "why does it happen this way?" questions that came my way. Not terribly time consuming, but stressful.

Here's a bit for you. If I were to tell you that the following passage appeared in an academic publication, when do you guess it would have been written? No googling, I want to know what your speculation is:

[...]In bisexuality, as in other domains, one finds intermediate cases ranging from a mere trace of homosexual love to the most pronounced[...]

I shall post about my adventures in Philly and with

lls_mutant later, when I am in a better mood. I almost missed my flight yesterday, and suffice to say I kinda wish I had.

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Hm. You'd think my Queer Activism class would give me some insight. I'd almost say the early 1900's, but those works don't generally refer to it as 'love'. And I'd say more modern, but the fact that they refer to homosexuality as 'traces' and 'pronounced' is odd for a time when it's been declassified as a mental disorder for like, 40 years.

I guess I'd say something like the 70's? Just because of my above rationalizations. I'm curious to know the answer.

Answer: 1891.

... Really? Who wrote this, and where were they from? (Havelock Ellis, maybe?) Seeing as Oscar Wilde is about to be put away for sodomy, I would like to know where this was being said.

Albert Moll, Germany. According to the book I'm reading, he later wasn't so kind.
I'm reading "Strangers: Homosexual Love in the 19th Century" right now, and it's incredibly fascinating.

Ah, well. See, Germans were ahead of the game. That explains everything. :)

My Histories of Queer Activism class is teaching me all sorts of madness. Though I am discovering that even a topic that is important and relevent is still capable of making you burn out and scream, "GOD I DON'T CARE ANYMORE" when you are doing academic work on it.

Hmm. Is it a judge writing? Then I'd say frighteningly recent, because I've been surprised how many not-so-old opinions have really questionable, old-fashioned wording when it comes to personal relationships.

If not, yeah, I'll guess mid-70s, too.

Ah, just googled it. Well, I was way off. ;)

Heh. Surprising eh? I cut out the last word of the sentence (uranism), as it's one that's been out of use for a long time. I find it amazing that people were expressing that sort of belief 100+ years ago, when most people today have trouble wrapping their minds around it.

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