Published in:
01-05-2013 | Original Paper
HIV and Men Who Have Sex with Men in South Africa
Authors:
James A. McIntyre, Helen Struthers
Published in:
AIDS and Behavior
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Special Issue 1/2013
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Excerpt
The first reports of homosexual behavior in South Africa date back to the days of the Dutch East India Company settlement at the Cape of Good Hope, but address the criminal penalties for the conduct. Oosterhoff describes in “Sodomy at Sea and in the Cape of Good Hope during the eighteenth century” [
1], a 1753 trial of a Dutch man and two Indian slaves, who had committed mutual masturbation at the chicken house at Robben Island, off the coast of Cape Town. The court records reflect that “not satisfied with their devilish frisky stimulation” they had also sodomized each other. The consequence, following their confession, was that the three were bound together with chains and thrown overboard into Table Bay. …
