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Article: The other Spanish Inquisition.(Book review)
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- The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide
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- September 1, 2007
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Sexual Hierarchies, Public Status: Men, Sodomy, and Society in Spain's Golden Age
by Cristian Berco
University of Toronto Press 248 pages, $55.
DURING THE SUMMER of 1625 in the region of Valencia, Spain, three adolescent boys, Nicolas Gonzalez, Joseph Carna, and Juan de la Vega, were accused of sodomy. Sons of local citizens, all three were of working-class families engaged as apprentices and laborers.
In the ensuing Inquisitorial trial, what was uncovered to the horror of many people was a web of prostitution in which the three boys engaged in sex with Muslim slaves in exchange for money and food. The slaves, while certainly on the ...