About this deal
According to Veronica Buckley, Christina was a "dabbler" who was "painted a lesbian, a prostitute, a hermaphrodite, and an atheist" by her contemporaries, though "in that tumultuous age, it is hard to determine which was the most damning label". One man protested that if male affairs were legitimized, then lesbianism would soon be condoned as well, an unthinkable notion.
Granted a pointedly small allowance by their families, the two ladies then set about "retiring" from society—forgoing the social circuit of their peers and dedicating themselves to learning, art, literature, and charity. And they did it with gusto, collecting wooden carvings, curating a magnificent library (with their entwined initials embossed on the books leather covers), and landscaping famously lovely gardens.Eleanor’s parents had her locked up in one of their homes, intending either to ship her out to a nunnery or let her rot in confinement as punishment for her behaviour. The sex handbook Dongxuanzi ( Chinese: 洞玄子; pinyin: Dòng Xuán Zǐ, possibly dating to the fifth century AD [18] : 2 ) also contains examples of female same-sex contact. In addition, Ahmad al-Tifashi wrote a collection of stories, known as A Promenade of the Hearts, which included some poems on homosexual and lesbian themes. There are examples of women casting love spells to make other women fall in love with them dating from the second to fourth centuries CE. According to the Ali ibn Nasr al-Katib's Encyclopedia of Pleasure, a female poet named Al-Hurqah loved another woman, the legendary Hind bint al-Khuss.
And these were they that did defile their bodies behaving as women: and the women that were with them were they that lay with one another as a man with a woman. However, our work is not done; many of us sadly still experience discrimination, exclusion, and abuse.
At the sheriff’s office, deputies read Hunt her Miranda rights and she told them about her relationship with C. Our goal is to create a safe space within the dating scene where everyone is welcome and can be themselves.