475) that the relations described by Hahn are really sexual,
although tempered by idealism. A German scholar who travelled in
Albania some years ago, also, assured Naecke (_Jahrbuch fuer
sexuelle Zwischenstufen_, vol. ix, 1908, p. 327) that he could
fully confirm Hahn's statements, and that, though it was
difficult to speak positively, he doubted whether these
relationships were purely ideal. While most prevalent among the
Moslems, they are also found among the Christians, and receive
the blessing of the priest in church. Jealousy is frequently
aroused, the same writer remarks, and even murder may be
committed on account of a boy.
It may be mentioned here that among the Tschuktsches,
Kamschatdals, and allied peoples (according to a Russian
anthropological journal quoted in _Sexual-Probleme_, January,
1913, p. 41) there are homosexual marriages among the men, and
occasionally among the women, ritually consecrated and openly
recognized.
The Albanians, it is possible, belonged to the same stock which produced
the Dorian Greeks, and the most important and the most thoroughly known
case of socially recognized homosexuality is that of Greece during its
period of highest military as well as ethical and intellectual vigor.
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