464.)
[19] I have been told by medical men in India that it is specially common
among the Sikhs, the finest soldier-race in India.
[20] Foley, _Bulletin Societe d'Anthropologie de Paris_, October 9, 1879.
[21] See, e.g., O. Kiefer, "Plato's Stellung zu Homosexualitaet," _Jahrbuch
fuer sexuelle Zwischenstufen_, vol. vii.
[22] Bethe, op. cit., p. 440. In old Japan (before the revolution of 1868)
also, however, according to F.S. Krauss (_Das Geschlechtsleben der
Japaner_, ch. xiii, 1911), the homosexual relations between knights and
their pages resembled those of ancient Greece.
[23] _Archiv fuer Kriminal-Anthropologie_, 1906, p. 106.
[24] _Zeitschrift fuer Sexualwissenschaft_, 1914, Heft 2, p. 73.
[25] Among the Sarts of Turkestan a class of well-trained and educated
homosexual prostitutes, resembling those found in China and many regions
of northern Asia, bearing also the same name of _batsha_, are said to be
especially common because fostered by the scarcity of women through
polygamy and by the women's ignorance and coarseness. The institution of
the _batsha_ is supposed to have come to Turkestan from Persia.
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