{| border="1" align="right" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" width="250" style="margin-left:5px"{sprotect2}}{{dablink|align="center" colspan="2"|This article is about rectal sex in human sexual behavior. For rectal sex in other animals, see [[Image:Cwlogo.png|200pxAnimal sexuality]].}} |-!colspan="2" align="center" style="color[[Image: white; height: 30px; background: navy noÉdouard-repeat scroll top left;"Henri Avril (18).jpg|The Civil War1861 - 1865thumb|-230px|Begun|April 12, 1861|-|Ended|April 9, 1865|-|Casualties|970,000|-|Total dead|620,000|-!colspan="2" align="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|United States Modern erotic interpretation of America|-|President|[[Abraham LincolnHadrian]]|-|Secretary of War|Edwin M. Stanton|-|Secretary of the Navy|Gideon Welles|-|Secretary of State:|William Seward|-!colspan="2" align="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: gray no-repeat scroll top left;"|Confederate States of America|-|President|and [[Jefferson DavisAntinous]]|-|Secretaries of War|Leroy Pope Walker, Judah P. Benjamin, George W. Randolph, James Seddon, John C. Breckinridge|by [[Édouard-Henri Avril|Secretary of the NavyPaul Avril]]]]|Stephan Mallory|[[Image:Édouard-Henri Avril (17).jpg|Secretaries of Statethumb|Robert Toombs, Robert M.T. Hunter, Judah P. Benjamin230px|}The '''American Civil War''' was a conflict which took place from 1861 to 1865Print, involving the government of the [[United States of AmericaÉdouard-Henri Avril|Paul Avril]] and eleven southern states which seceded from the Union and formed their own government called the [[Confederate States of America]]. , 1906; In terms of casualties versus population the Civil War was the worst war ever fought in American historyF-K Forberg, having involved casualties ''Manual of nearly a million soldiers and civilians, roughly three percent of the countryClassical Erotology''s total population of about 28 million people; with the exception of [[World War II]], the Civil War has claimed more battle deaths than all other American wars combined.
==Names==The American Civil War has been called by other titles: the '''War Between the Statesrectal sex''' and the '''War is a form of Northern Aggression''' [[human sexual behavior]]. While there are popular titles in many sexual acts involving the South[[anus]], rectal cavity, sphincter valve and/or [[rectum]], as is the informal title term ''rectal sex'The Lost Cause'is often restricted to ''. Officially, the United States government has called it the rectal intercourse'''War of : the Rebellion'''. The term "civil war" is most accurate, as it not only involved state against state from a common country, but the splitting of families as well; fathers would take sides against sons, and brother would fight against brother in many battles. In one sad case, Private Wesley Culp [[sexual intercourse|insertion]] of the 2nd Virginia Regiment would die for the Confederacy at the erect [[Battle of Gettysburgpenis]], killed on his father's farm. (TL 15, ppinto the rectum. 154-155)
==Prelude It is a form of sexual behavior considered to be comparatively high in risk, due to war=====Description the vulnerability of the North prior to 1860===The chief characteristic tissues and the septic nature of the North was its industrializationanus.<ref>"Most of the time, which was rapidcondoms work well. Plants However, condoms are more likely to manufacture metal goods sprang up almost as fast as they were invented, and after manufacture they spread quicklybreak during rectal sex than during vaginal sex. One example was [[John Deere]]Thus, who in 1840 was manufacturing even with a new stainless-steel plow that he had invented barely three years before; by 1848 the plows were selling at the rate of a thousand a year. By 1857condom, Deere and his partner had expanded with the manufacture of so much farm equipment that the Middle West was made the country's greatest wheat-producing arearectal sex can be very risky. Farm equipment also included the first examples A person should use generous amounts of steamwater-powered plows, and based lubricant in 1859 there were contests as addition to who could build and deploy the best plow. One such plow at a contest at Freeport, [[Illinois]] caused an official committee condom to declare reduce the machine could "plow 25 acres a day at 62chances of the condom breaking.5 cents an acre" versus a normal manual charge of $2[http://www.50 an acrecdc. (Nevins, pg 166-168)gov/hiv/resources/qa/qa22.htm Center for Disease Control; "Can I get HIV from rectal sex?"]</ref>
Inventions were not limited to farming. [[Locomotive]]s== rectal intercourse ===== Male-male ===In premodern societies, including [[sewing machineancient Greece]]s, and [[shoe peggerHistory of Japan|premodern Japan]]s, rectal sex was associated with male-male [[reaperPederasty|paederastic relationships]]s, [[auger]]s, [[turbine]]s, [[hydraulics]], [[power loom]]s, [[rotary press]]es, and more seemingly raced out of factories. [[Standardization]] was also an American invention, meaning replacement parts could be made Manuscripts and ordered to replace something broken within the machine instead of replacing the machine itself, art from those periods depict rectal sex as Connecticut's [[Samuel Colt]] first demonstrated with his new [[revolver]]. And to keep up with the exporting demand, Northern shipyards produced so many ships main or only sexual activity that they threatened to eclipse their chief rival, Great Britainoccurred in such relationships. (TL 1, pg 18)
The North was also a melting pot of In modern times, particularly in [[immigrationWestern culture]]. Northern cities were crowded and boisterouss, rectal sex has been popularly associated with [[Homosexuality|gay]] and expanding rapidly[[Bi-sexuality|bisexual]] men. In particular, rectal sex has been associated with the spread of [[New YorkHIV]]'s population had jumped from 515,000 to 814,000 especially in early years of the 1850's; discovery of the disease. This resulted in [[Chicagogay bathhouse]]'s had gone from its 1837 incorporation with barely more than 4,000 people to over 112,000 in some [[United States|American]] cities being shut down by 1860public-health authorities. (TL 1, pg 16)
===Description of Among [[gay]] men who have rectal sex, some consistently take the South prior to 1860===The South was largely agrarian. A Southern boast[[top (sex)|top]] (insertive) or [[bottom (sex)|bottom]] (receptive) role, "Cotton but this is king!" became very true by not always the 1850's, case: some men who have rectal sex act as cotton was grown, harvested, both top and shipped to market in vast quantities. The number of bales in 1849 was 2 million; by 1859 it had jumped to 5.7 million, amounting to more than half of all American exports and seven-eighths of the total amount of cotton in the worldbottom at different times. This is known as "versatile" or "[[switch (TL 1, pg 10sex)|switch]]".
Southern life was set === Male-female ===In several cultures receptive rectal intercourse by a landed gentryheterosexual partners is widely accepted. One reason is that there is very low risk of unwanted [[human pregnancy|pregnancy]] via unprotected rectal intercourse (though this is not an absolute guarantee, since semen can leak from the small minority of well-to-do plantersanus, across the [[perineum]], and enter the [[vagina]]). They practiced a cultivated chivalryAlso, kindness towards those of inferior statusrectal sex is even sometimes seen as preserving female [[virginity]], a code of honor among equalsbecause it leaves the [[hymen]] intact. Another reason is that the anus is considered to yield more tactile pleasure for the penis, being tighter than the vagina. The Renaissance poet [[Pietro Aretino]] advocated the practice in his ''Sonetti Lussuriosi'' (Lust Sonnets).<ref>{{cite journal| last = Daileader| first = Celia R.| title = Back Door Sex: Renaissance Gynosodomy, Aretino, and a gallantry towards womenthe Exotic| journal = English Literary History| volume = 69| issue = 2| pages = 303-334| publisher = The Johns Hopkins University Press| date = Summer [[2002]]| url = http://muse. jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/elh/v069/69.2daileader.pdf| accessdate = 2007-04-30}}</ref>
The money made from cotton was spent on goods manufactured in the North====rectal sex and female virginity====Though more often applied to first penetration, as well as imports from <ref>{{cite news | last = Jayson| first = Sharon| title = 'Technical virginity' becomes part of teens' equation| work = USA Today| publisher = Gannett Co. Inc.| date = [[Europe2005-10-19]]| url = http://www. They had a taste for wellusatoday.com/news/health/2005-bred horses, quality firearms, foxhounds, and the belles from fine Southern families10-19-teens-technical-virginity_x. And they also studied assiduously htm| accessdate = 2007-04-29 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | last = Friedman| first = Mindy| title = Sex on Tuesday: Virginity: A Fluid Issue| work = The Daily Californian| date = [[2005-09-20]]| url = http://www.dailycal.org/sharticle.php?id=19565| accessdate = 2007-04-29 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web| last = The 700 Club| first =| title = Hayley DiMarco: The New Promiscuous| work =| publisher = CBN| date =| url = http://www.cbn.com/700club/guests/bios/Hayley_DiMarco072006.aspx| format =| doi =| accessdate = 2007-04-29 }}</ref> the arts concept of war"technical [[virginity]]" is sometimes conceived of as resting solely on vaginal penetration.<ref>{{cite paper| author = Uecker, often spending large sums Jeremy E. et al| title = Going Most of money to send themselves or their sons to military schoolsthe Way: "Technical Virginity" among Young Americans| url = http://paa2007. One princeton.edu/download.aspx?submissionId=70881| accessdate = 2007-04-30}}</ref>In [[MississippiNorman Mailer]] planter's novel ''[[Harlot's Ghost]]'', Jefferson Davis, remarked a character states that only in the South Italy, an unmarried woman had to be "did a gentlemen go to maiden before and a military academy who did not intend to follow the profession of arms.martyr behind" (TL 1which implied that such women were obliged to submit to rectal sex, pg 12)and that rectal sex was consistently painful.
But the South had several serious drawbacks. Its population at 1860 was roughly 9 million people, In other cases first rectal intercourse is conceived of whom more than 3 million were slavesas ending a separate virginity from first vaginal intercourse, versus more than 21 million in the North. There were only 18,000 manufacturing plants of any kind in the South, as opposed <ref>{{cite web| title = How to the North's more than 100,000make her enjoy rectal sex? (part I)| url = http://www. Of these, only two were capable love-shop.biz/enjoy-rectal.html| accessdate = 2007-04-29}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | title = Love Bites: Taking Care of producing Business| work = Eye Weekly| publisher = Toronto Star Newspapers Limited| date = [[rolled iron2000-09-14]], one which produced [[gunpowder]], and none capable | url = http://www.eye.net/eye/issue/issue_09.14.00/columns/lovebites.php| accessdate = 2007-04-29 }}</ref> with varying degrees of producing seriousness. In a Rolling Stone interview comedian [[firearmsSarah Silverman]]; there were joked: "I didn't lose my virginity until I was twenty-seven gun manufacturers in [[Massachusetts]] alonesix. More than 70% of all [[railroad]] mileage was north of Nineteen vaginally, but twenty-six what my boyfriend calls 'the Ohio River; the South had the remainderreal way.'"<ref>http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/8719206/dirty_rotten_princess</ref>
===[[Slavery]]Frequency ===[[Image:Whippedslave.JPG|thumb|150px|right|Unknown slave prior to 1860, showing the scars of one, or more, brutal whippings.]]Before the Civil War, the individual states, particularly in the South, shared a belief that each state was sovereign. Sovereignty included jurisdiction over, and the handling of, each state's affairs, which invariably included their own public and private institutions.
Yet Determining the "peculiar institution" cited more often than anything else proportion of people that engage in defending states' rights was rectal sex, and the Southern institution of slaveryfrequency with which they do so, is rather difficult. Africans Sexual surveys tend to reflect whether those surveyed have ever had been present as slaves rectal sex, or whether they have had rectal sex in the American colonies since the early 17th century; over the years the South began to see last year, instead of distinguishing between those who have tried it less as an evil one or a few times and more of those who regularly have rectal sex. It is also thought that a necessity; so ingrained into reason for the fabric had slavery become difficulty is the difficulty of collecting data on a practice that Vice President John Cremains highly stigmatized in many countries. Calhoun was {{Fact|date=October 2007}} According to say in 1838: :''a 2004 report, "many Some research suggests that one in four heterosexuals in the South once believed that slavery was a moral US has tried rectal sex and political evil. That folly and delusion are gone. We see it now for one in its true light12, and regard it is an occasional or episodic practice. Other surveys suggest that seven times as the most safe and stable basis for free institutions many women as gay men engage in rectal intercourse, a figure reflecting the worldgreater overall heterosexual population."<ref>Anne-christine d’Adesky, '' (TL 1Expanding Microbicide Research'' in amfAR Global Link - Treatment Insider; May 2004</ref> While at the present time it is reported more frequently among [[homosexuality|same-sex couples]], pg 40)according to Dr John Dean and Dr David Delvin, "in absolute numbers, it is hypothesized that more heterosexual couples have rectal sex than homosexual couples".<ref>" There is a common misconception that rectal sex is practised almost exclusively by gay men. This is certainly not the case. It is thought that an estimated one third of gay couples do not include rectal intercourse in their lovemaking. About one third of heterosexual couples try it from time to time. It is thought that about 10 per cent of heterosexual couples have rectal intercourse as a regular feature of their lovemaking. In absolute numbers, it is hypothesized that more heterosexual couples have rectal sex than homosexual couples.[http://www.tiscali.co.uk/lifestyle/healthfitness/health_advice/netdoctor/archive/000594.html]</ref>
The slaves for the most part were treated brutally. Born in bondage, a slave usually began his first work in the fields at the age of twelve. They would work in the fields from the light of day until, in the words of a Louisiana slave, "until it is too dark to see, and when the moon is full, they often labor until the middle of the night" (TL, pg 48). They were fed and clothed poorly, usually in rags; shoes were uncommon. Disease was rampant; four out of 100 lived past age 60. And they were required to absolute respect to a white. Punishment for infractions was severe, involving stocks, pronged neck collars, and whippings where salt water was used to clear infection, with the result of pain so excruciating a slave recollecting it wrote "the flesh crawls upon my bones" (TL 1, pp 49-58)==== Homosexual ====
Eli Whitney patented his cotton gin In the 1950s in 1793. Prior to that, slaves were harvesting cotton, pulling the seed from the bollUnited Kingdom, and packing by hand for market at a rate it was thought that about fifteen percent of 100 bales a weekmale homosexuals practiced the method. <ref>H. Montgomery Hyde, The gin did Love That Dared not Speak its Name; pp.6-7 </ref> The Gay Urban Men's Study (P.I. Stall, UCSF) and the hard work of separating the bollYoung Men's Study (YMS, PI Osmond/Catania, enabling bales UCSF), indicate that 50% of cotton at a rate of over 1000 a week, often moremen surveyed engage in rectal sex. The result was the number [[Laumann study]] claims that 80% of annual cotton harvests increased to threegay men practice it, which saw a concurrent rise in profits made by plantation owners; while the number of slaves needed for the fields and other tasks increased as well, climbing from 300,000 remaining 20% never engage in 1790 to over three million by 1860it at all.
===Political machinations and compromises===The '''[[Missouri Compromise (1820)]]''' allowed for A survey conducted from 1994 to 1997 in San Francisco by the Stop AIDS Project indicated that over the entry course of [[Maine]] into the Union as a free statestudy, and among [[Missourimen who have sex with men]] as a slave state. It was further agreed that slavery was to be excluded from territory north of the 36°30′ parallel, or the remaining western territoriesproportion engaging in rectal sex increased from 57. Before admission could be granted 6% to Missouri a clause in the state's constitution provoked controversy: the exclusion of "free Negroes and mulattoes"61. Under Whig Henry Clay's influence in the U2%.S. senate<ref>Center for Disease Control, an act of admission was passed, upon condition that the controversial [[exclusionary clause]] should "never be construed to authorize the passage of any law" impairing the privileges and immunities of free citizens. The compromise seemed deliberately ambiguous ''Increases in that it could be interpreted to indicate that free blacks Unsafe Sex and mulattoes did not qualify as United States citizensRectal Gonorrhea Among Men Who Have Sex With Men -- San Francisco, which would be put to direct test years later with a slave named Dred Scott. California, 1994-1997''[http://www.loccdc.gov/rrmmwR/programpreview/bibmmwrhtml/ourdocs/Missouri00056314.htmlhtm], retrieved [[2007-04-29]]</ref>
Another crisis arose from the request of the ==== Heterosexual ==== [[CaliforniaEdward O. Laumann]] Territory to be admitted to the Union as a [[free state]]; this was complicated by territory acquired 's 1992 survey, reported in ''The Social Organization of Sexuality: Sexual Practices in the southwest as a result United States'' found that about 20% of the heterosexuals have engaged in rectal sex. [[Mexican WarSexology|Sex researcher]] of 1848 and whether to extend slavery there. An omnibus bill drafted by [[Henry ClayAlfred Kinsey]] called , working in the 1940s, had found that number to be closer to 40% at the time. More recently, a researcher from the '''[[Compromise University of 1850British Columbia]]''' tried to give satisfaction to the southern states in addition to California's admission: 2005 put the settlement number of the Texas-New Mexico border dispute; the slavery question open for voting via popular sovereignty in the Utah heterosexuals who have practiced rectal sex at between 30% and New Mexico territories as they were organized; the end of slave trading 50%.<ref>{{cite web| title = Healthy sex is all in the District of Columbia; and tough requirements concerning talk| publisher = The Georgia Straight| date = [[runaway slave2005-05-05]]s. [| url = http://blueandgraytrailwww.straight.com/eventarticle/Compromise_of_1850]healthy-sex-is-all-in-the-talk| accessdate = 2007-06-14}}</ref>
All A French survey of five measures were enacted in September, 1850 as hundred female respondents concluded that a result total of the efforts and support 29% had practiced rectal sex, though only one third of Democratic senator [[Stephen Athese claimed to have enjoyed the experience. Douglas]] and Whig senator [[Daniel Webster]], and were accepted by moderates throughout the country as well as postponing Southern [[secession]] for another decade<ref name="French">{{cite web| title = Les pratiques sexuelles des Françaises| publisher = TNS/Sofres| url = http://www. But the seeds of discord were planted; the precedent of [[popular sovereignty]], championed tns-sofres.com/etudes/pol/030701_sexualite_r.htm| accessdate = 2007-04-30| language = French}}Survey carried out by Douglas as the way for the public to vote whether or not they wanted slavery TNS/Sofres in their territories, led to the Kansas territory agitating for a similar provision. And the [[Fugitive Slave Act]] that was a part representative sample of the Compromise was so bitterly condemned that many moderates who had ignored slavery in the past became determined opponents 500 women from 18 to any extension 65 years of the institution into the territories. Many would risk jail rather than turn over runaway slaves to their owners as required by the new lawsage, in April and May, 2002. </ref>
The '''[[Kansas–Nebraska Act]]''' (May 30In 2005, 1854), sponsored a survey conducted by Douglas, provided the Centers for Disease Control determined that the territorial organization incidence of Kansas and Nebraska, using his principle rectal relations in the idea heterosexual population is on the increase. The survey showed that 38.2 percent of popular sovereigntymen between 20 and 39 and 32. Douglas 6 percent of women aged 18 to 44 had written the act engaged in heterosexual rectal sex; in an effort 1992 a similar survey found that only 25.6 percent of men 18 to slow or halt the sectarianism 59 and 20.4 percent of women 18 to 59 had.<!-- sectional strife? --ref> over slavery's extension, but the Kansas-Nebraska Act merely increased the flames, and was attacked by [[free-soil]] and [[abolitionist]]s as a capitulation to those who supported slaveryhttp://www. The [[Whig Partycdc.gov/nchs/data/ad/ad362.pdf]], ineffective in preventing it, largely disintegrated, and 2006 survey of sexual behavior from the Republican Party was born and soon became a viable political organization opposed to territorial expansion of slaveryCDC. </ref>
On the heels == Other rectal sexual behavior ==[[Image:Buttplug.png|thumb|A butt plug is one of the many sex toys specifically designed for rectal usage.]]rectal sex need not involve penile insertion. The active partner (male or female) may use appendages other than a penis, such as [[fingering (sexual act )#rectal fingering|the fingers]] and [[rectal fisting|a large number fist]]. The use of people left Missouri the mouth and sought to influence elections in tongue on the Kansas Territory. "anus, called ''[[Border Ruffiansrectal-oral contact|rimming]]"'' or rectalingus is also common, as they were called, entered Kansas and cast thousands of illegal votes resulting often in conjunction with other sexual acts. He or she might also use an artificial device, often a pro-slave government phallic reproduction ([[penis]]) or one that Democratic president is generally engineered specifically for rectal penetration ([[Franklin Piercebutt plug]] recognized, and continued doing so even after it was ruled illegitimate by a congressional investigative committee. The territory's actual residents set up their own legislature and created the When a female using a [[Topeka Constitutionstrap-on penis]]; Pierce declared their endeavors an act of rebellionrectally penetrates a male, and he went so far as to send in Federal troops to break it upis referred to as [[pegging (sexual practice)|pegging]].<ref>[http://thestranger.com/seattle/SavageLove?oid=7730 Savage Love Female-to-Male strap-on sex naming contest], origin of the word Pegging, retrieved [[May 4]][[2007]]</ref>
===Bleeding Kansas=Prostate stimulation ==The [[Image:Brooks1.jpg|thumb|150px|right|J.L. Magee's cartoon of Preston Brooks attacking Charles Sumner on the Senate floor, May 24, 1856.prostate]]The Border Ruffians gland, also stirred up violence between themselves and the Free-Staters, which became known as ''[[Bleeding Kansas]]'', beginning with the burning of a hotel and printing press in [[Lawrence, Kansas|Lawrence]] on May 21, 1856. Several days later an anti"male G-slavery religious fanatic named [[John Brown]] and a few followers retaliated against five pro-slavery menspot", hacking them to death with [[broadsword]]s. By August thousands of men had formed into pro"P-slavery armies and marched into Kansasspot", expecting to force the territory to accept slavery. That same month a small, pitched battle occurred near the city of [[Osawatomie]]; 300 proor "A-slavery soldiers under the command of John W. Reid fought against Brown and 40 men. Brown lost the battle and Osawatomie was looted and burned. A fragile peace led by a new territorial governor would commence only when Brown and his men left the territoryspot" can be stimulated during rectal intercourse. <ref>[http://www.loctalksexwithsue.govcom/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/kansasAspot.htmlThe A-Spot],Talk Sex with Sue Johansen, 2005, retrieved [[2007-04-29]]</ref>
The day after Stimulation of the hotel [[prostate gland]] can result in Lawrence was burned, pleasurable sensations and can lead to a distinct type of [[South CarolinaOrgasm#From the Prostatic Structure|orgasm]] congressman named in some cases. The prostate is located next to the rectum and is the larger, more developed<ref>The G Spot: And Other Discoveries About Human Sexuality by Alice Kahn Ladas, Beverly Whipple, and John D. Perry, pg 57.</ref> male [[Preston Brookshomology (biology)|homologue]] to the [[Skene's glands]], incensed over an antialso known as the "G-slavery speech given by Massachusetts Senator spot"<ref>[http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992495 Bigger is better when it comes to the G spot], Nicola Jones, NewScientist.com, July 2002, retrieved [Charles Sumner[2007-04-29]]</ref> or "female prostate", walked onto <ref>{{cite journal | author = Zaviacic M, Jakubovská V, Belosovic M, Breza J | title = Ultrastructure of the senate floor and beat him with a cane so severely that Sumner took three years to recovernormal adult human female prostate gland (Skene's gland). | journal = Anat Embryol (Bowman, pg 38Berl)| volume = 201 | issue = 1 | pages = 51-61 | year = 2000 | id = PMID 10603093}}</ref> which are located around the urethra and can be felt through the wall of the vagina.
===Dred Scott decision=Risks ==[[Dred Scott]] was owned by an Army physician who was transferred rectal sex exposes participants to the state of Wisconsintwo principal dangers: infections, a free state, for several years before a transfer due to Missouri, a slave state. Scott sued on the grounds that his residence in a free state where slavery was illegal made him free. After a series high number of unsuccessful lawsuits, Scott appealed to the United States Supreme Court, where in 1856, Chief Justice infectious [[Roger B. Taneymicroorganisms]] delivered the majority opinion in ''Dred Scott vs. Sanford'':*Blacks were not entitled to citizenship according to found elsewhere on the U.S. Constitution.*Blacks were not entitled to freedom under the Ordinance of 1797 while within the area of the Northwest Territorybody, of which Wisconsin was a part.*The Missouri Compromise of 1820 prohibiting slavery north of Missouri and in free states was voided.What physical damage to the Dred Scott decision meant was any slave could be taken anywhere in the Union without fear that the owner of the slave would lose his property; a slave was private property, Taney stated, anus and according to the Fifth Amendment could not be taken from the owner without rectum due processto their vulnerability. [http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=60&invol=393]
The decision further deteriorated NorthRecent reports have documented that risky behavior is on the rise among men who have sex with men.<ref>Center for Disease Control, ''Increases in Unsafe Sex and Rectal Gonorrhea Among Men Who Have Sex With Men -- San Francisco, California, 1994-1997''[http:/South relations/www.cdc.gov/mmwR/preview/mmwrhtml/00056314.htm], retrieved [[2007-04-29]]</ref> Likewise, among men who have sex with women, as a stunned North realized 1992 study of socially and sexually active Puerto Rican men indicated that free states had to support of the institution more than 40% who reported having rectal sex with women, very few had used condoms.<ref>Crandon JE. Int Conf AIDS. 1992 Jul 19-24; 8: D527 (abstract no. PoD 5830) Hertford College, Oxford University, U.K.; "A study concerning HIV related knowledge, attitudes, and behaviours in a sample of slaveryPuerto Rican men and its relevance to AIDS education, prevention and outreach in San Juan, Puerto Rico."[http://gateway.nlm.nih.gov/MeetingAbstracts/102201007.html] Accessed 9/27/2007</ref>
===Emergence of LincolnInfectious diseases ===Among the diseases with which rectal sex is associated are HIV,<ref>[[Imagehttp:Abraham-lincoln-cooper-union//www.jpg|thumb|150px|right|Abraham Lincolnsoc.ucsb.edu/sexinfo/?article=faq&refid=125 What are the Dangers of rectal Sex?], February 27SexInfo, 1860.University of California at Santa Barbara, retrieved [[2007-04-29]]</ref> [[Imagerectal cancer]],<ref>[http:SDouglas//www.jpg|thumb|150px|right|Stephen Algbthealthchannel. Douglascom/msmcancer/ rectal Cancer in Gay & Bisexual Men], about 1858.LGBTHealthChannel, retrieved [[2007-04-29]]The Kansas</ref> typhoid fever<ref>[http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-Nebraska Act attracted much opposition in the country and led to splitting bin/resolve?id=doi:10.1086/375590&erFrom=-3765596048411440117Guest Sexual Transmission of the Democrats along the Typhoid Fever: A Multistate Outbreak among Men Who Have Sex with Men], Reller, Megan E. et al, Clinical Infectious Diseases, volume 37 (2003), pages 141 – 144, retrieved [[Mason2007-04-Dixon line29]] (Douglas in </ref> and various diseases associated with the ensuing years tried desperately to keep it together) as well as the collapse infectious nature of the Whig Party as an effective political organization[[Feces|fecal matter]] or sexual intercourse in general. Many former Whigs, whose beliefs included the abolishment of slavery, flocked to the newly-formed Among these are: [[Republican PartyAmoebiasis]]; their number would include a lawyer from Illinois who used the act to jump back into politics after a five[[Chlamydia]]; [[Cryptosporidiosis]]; [[Escherichia coli|E. coli infections]]; [[Giardiasis]]; [[Gonorrhea]]; [[Hepatitis A]]; [[Hepatitis B]]; [[Hepatitis C]]; [[Herpes simplex]]; [[Human papillomavirus]]; [[Lymphogranuloma venereum]]; [[Pubic lice]]; [[Salmonellosis]]; [[Shigella]]; [[Syphilis]]; [[Tuberculosis]].<ref name="rectalHealth">[http://www.sexualhealthchannel.com/rectalhealth/ rectal Health], Sexual Health Channel, retrieved [[2007-year absence04-29]]</ref><ref>[http://health.ivillage.com/sexualhealth/sxsafe/0, ,6d85,00.html Diseases From rectal Sex] Harold Oster, MD, iVillage, retrieved [[Abraham Lincoln2007-04-29]]</ref><ref>[http://www. mayoclinic.com/health/tuberculosis/DS00372/DSECTION=3 Tuberculosis], The Mayo Clinic, retrieved [[2007-04-29]]</ref>
Lincoln was nominated for === HIV/AIDS ===The high concentration of [[white blood cell]]s around the Senate seat held by Douglas at rectum, together with the Republican State Convention in Springfield on June 16risk of cuts to the rectum and that one of the functions of the rectum is to absorb fluid, 1858increases the risk of HIV transmission because the HIV retrovirus reproduces within the immune system's T-cells/CD4 cells. The acceptance speech he gave has been called Use of [[condom]]s and other precautions are a medically recommended way to lessen risk of infections. Unprotected receptive rectal sex is the "most risky sexual behavior in terms of HIV transmission.<ref>[http://www.cdc.gov/MMWR/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5338a1.htm High-Risk Sexual Behavior by HIV-Positive Men Who Have Sex with Men --- 16 Sites, United States, 2000--2002], MMWR Weekly, [[House DividedOctober 1]], [[2004]] / 53(38);891-894, retrieved [[2007-04-29]]</ref><ref>[http://aids.about.com/od/hivaidsstats/f/infectionrisk.htm " speechAm I at Risk for HIV Infection?"] Mark Cichocki, after the opening linesAbout:HIV/AIDS, retrieved [[2007-04-29]]</ref><ref>[http://www.planetout.com/health/hiv/?sernum=1900 The truth about barebacking] Dr. Jeffrey Klausner, PlanetOut, retrieved [[2007-04-29]]</ref>
:''If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what === Physical damage ===Physical damage to do, and how to do it. We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object, rectum and confident promiseanus can manifest as generalized ano-rectal trauma, of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy[[hemorrhoid]]s, that agitation has not only not ceased[[rectal fissure]]s, but has constantly augmented<ref name="rectalHealth">[http://www. In my opinionsexualhealthchannel.com/rectalhealth/ rectal Health], it will not ceaseSexual Health Channel, until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. "A house divided against itself cannot stand." <!-- What Bible verse is this? retrieved [[2007-04-29]]</ref> I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free[[rectal prolapse]]. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved -- I do not expect the house to fall -- but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread An insufficient amount of lubricant can make it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; especially painful or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new -- North as well as Southinjurious.'' <ref>[http://www.historyplacestudent.com/lincoln/dividedsexguide_a.htmphp?id=45 Importance of Foreplay]dudeman41465, The Sexuality Guide [[November 3]], [[2005]], retrieved [[2007-04-29]]</ref> Damage is more likely if intercourse is forcible or aggressive, if alcohol or other drugs have dulled sensitivity, if communication is poor, or if technique is clumsy.
August through October, 1858 saw seven Illinois towns witnessing the === Incontinence ===[[Lincoln-Douglas debatesFecal incontinence|Incontinence]]has also been reported; Douglas the national figure defending the choice result of voters whether to accept slavery or not, and the littlerectal sphincter losing its tonus.<ref>Net Doctor -known Lincoln taking a stand against slavery on political, social, Sex and moral groundsRelationships [http://www. Douglas never wavered from defending popular sovereigntynetdoctor.co.uk/ate/sexandrelationships/sex/200700.html Does rectal sex cause incontinence?], NetDoctor.co.uk, and he also played on the voters' fears of [[black integration2006-06-19]]. Stating blacks were inferior to whites, he appealed to racists by declaring that retrieved [[2007-04-29]]</ref> A 1993 study published in the government was "established upon ''Journal of the white basis. It was made by white Royal Society of Medicine'' found that out of a sample of forty menreceiving rectal intercourse, for the benefit fourteen experienced episodes of white menfrequent rectal incontinence." (TL 1, pg 106)<ref>[http://www. Lincoln on the other hand knew Douglas was in a war jrsm.org/cgi/content/abstract/86/3/144 Effect of his own with President [[Franklin Buchanan]anoreceptive intercourse on anorectal function]AJ Miles, TG Allen-Mersh and C Wastell, Department of Surgery, Westminster Hospital, London; in 's administration over acceptance 'Journal of the Kansas constitution which barred slavery from the stateRoyal Society of Medicine'' Vol 86, further alienating Southern Democratic supportIssue 3 144-147; the fear was that Douglas would be more appealing to moderate Republicans 1993, retrieved [[2007-04-29]]</ref> [[Tristan Taormino]] argues in the east. Lincolnher book 's strategy therefore was '[[The Ultimate Guide to point out and use the vast difference between the moral indifference to slavery as embodied by Douglasrectal Sex for Women]]''s popular sovereignty, and the moral wrong that slavery actually was as embodied by Republican opposition to it. Douglas wasproper technique, Lincoln insistedclear communication, a man who did not care whether slavery was "voted up or voted downand mutual consent can reduce the risk of incontinence."
Douglas retained his Senate seat=== Cancer ===Most cases of rectal cancer are related to infection with the [[human papilloma virus]]. The incidence of the disease has jumped 160% in men and 78% in women in the last thirty years, but by according to a narrow margin2004 American study. Lincoln, however, won The increase is attributed to changing trends in sexual behavior and [[tobacco]] use. Current use of tobacco increased the debatesincidence of rectal cancer four-fold, which thrust him into while a history of multiple sex partners (fifteen or more) or receptive rectal sex increased the national spotlight incidence seven-fold.<ref>Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, ''Changing Trends in Sexual Behavior May Explain Rising Incidence of rectal Cancer Among American Men and put him on the road to the White HouseWomen''[http://www.fhcrc.org/about/ne/news/2004/07/06/rectalcancer.html], retrieved [[2007-09-23]]</ref>
===John Brown at Harpers Ferry=Protective measures ==During As the spring of 1858[[rectum|rectal]] [[mucosa]] provides insufficient natural lubrication, John Brown held a meeting in Ontario between blacks and whites in which he stated his intentions to form a stronghold in the mountains between Virginia and Maryland for escaped slaves, even going so far as to adopt his own provisional constitution for the United States, which his group adopted. Several prominent Boston [[abolitionistpersonal lubricant|artificial lubrication]]s also gave him financial and moral supportis most often required or preferred when penetrating the anus.
By summer, 1859, Brown was in a rented farmhouse in Maryland, across Because the river from the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia; with him was an armed band of sixteen whites and five blacks. On the night of October 16, he raided the armory and took some sixty of the area's leading men as hostages, and hoped that slaves would get word of his forming an "army of emancipation", escape, and fight with him [[vagina|vaginal opening]] is located so close to liberate their fellow slaves. For the next thirty hours he and his men held out against the local militia[[anus]], but on the following morning a small force of United States Marines led by Army colonel without [[Robert E. Leesafe sex|proper precautions]] quickly broke it is not uncommon for sexual partners to spread bacteria from the anus into the arsenal buildingvagina as well as the urethra, wounding Brown, and killing two the repercussions of his sons and ten other followers. He was tried for murder, slave insurrection, <!-- that's a particular crime? --> and which can include [[treasonurinary tract infection]](UTI), and at the end he was convicted and hanged. The day he was which can lead to die he spoke no last words, merely handing a note to a guard on which he had written a last, prophetic statement: ''"I, John Brown, am now quite certain that infection of the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with bloodkidneys."'' (TL 1, ppThis also happens if an object or appendage is inserted rectally and then vaginally before proper cleaning. 70-89)
Ever fearful of a slave insurrection, Latex gloves or condoms can be used to reduce the South became tougher on its slavesrisk. In Washington, Senator Jefferson Davis assumed, like many others, that the North was behind a conspiracy involving John Brown and others like him, aimed at abolishing slavery. He said in a speech::''The Government It is no longer also possible to intervene in favor of take acceptable measures separate from such protection for our slaves. We may be robbed of our property, and the General Government will not intervene for our protection. When the Government gets into the hands of the Republican party, the arm of the General Government, we which include (but are told, will not be raised for the protection of our slave property. Then intervention in favor of slavery and [[slave States]] will no longer be tolerated. We may be invaded, and the Black Republican Government will stand and permit our soil limited to be violated ) hand washing and our people assailed being conscious and raise no arm in our defense. The sovereignty wary of the State is no longer to be a bar to encroachments upon our rights when the Government gets into Black Republican where one's hands. Then John Brown, and a thousand John Browns, can invade us, and the Government will not protect us. ''[http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/learning_history/brown/public_davisdevices are placed.cfm]
Many in the North held a different viewCondoms are less effective and more prone to burst or slip during rectal sex than vaginal sex. Brown was a martyr for abolition. The great orator [[Frederick Douglas]], an [[exWhile one study estimates that condoms fail anywhere from 10% -slave]] himself who was never afraid to confront the evils 32% of the South's time during rectal sex,<ref name="peculiar institutionsilverman1997", perhaps offered the best assessment >{{cite journal| last=Silverman| first= B G| coauthors= et al| title=Use and Effectiveness of Brown::''His zeal in the cause Condoms During rectal Intercourse| journal=Sexually Transmitted Diseases| volume=24| issue=1| month=January| year=1997| pages=14}}</ref> [[SIECUS]] indicates a much lower failure rate of freedom was infinitely superior to mine0. Mine was as the taper light, his was as the burning sun. Mine was bounded by time. His stretched away 5 to the silent shores of eternity12%. I could speak for the slave. John Brown could fight for the slave. I could live for the slave. John Brown could die for the slave.'' <ref>[http://memorywww.locsiecus.govorg/cgi-binpubs/ampage?collId=mfd&fileName=22fact/22002/22002page.db&recNum=9&tempFile=fact0011.html The Truth about Condoms] [[SIECUS]]</temp/~ammem_rvc6&filecode=mfd&next_filecode=mfd&prev_filecode=mfd&itemnum=2&ndocs=32]ref>
===1860 Presidential campaign===On this subject, the [[Image:Electionlincoln.JPG|thumb|250pxUS Centers for Disease Control|right|Results CDC]] says "Most of the 1860 Presidential Electiontime, condoms work well. Due However, condoms are more likely to the splitting break during rectal sex than during vaginal sex. Thus, even with a condom, rectal sex can be very risky. A person should use generous amounts of water-based lubricant in addition to the country on condom to reduce the slavery issue, Lincoln won only 40% chances of the popular votecondom breaking.]]"<ref>{{cite web'' See [[United States presidential election of 1860]]''|last = Centers for Disease Control|first =|title = "Can I get HIV from rectal sex?"|url = http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/resources/qa/qa22.htm|date = 2006-10-20|accessdate = 2007-04-28}}</ref>
In AprilSome manufacturers offer "extra strong" condoms designed specifically for rectal intercourse. These condoms, 1860while stronger, the Democratic Party held its convention in are usually not coated with [[Charlestonspermicide]], South Carolina, and the first platform placed for so offer less protection against pregnancy should semen enter a vote is pro-slavery. When it is rejected in woman's vagina, but will lessen the course chance of voting, delegates from eight states in the South walk out; the remaining delegates are forced irritation to adjourn when they cannot agree on a candidate to represent their party in the White House. (Bowman, pgsensitive anus area. 40)
The Republicans hold their convention in Chicago in MayIn a 1998 joint conference of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality and the American Association of Sex Educators, 1860Counselors, and Lincoln is nominated on Therapists, Jack Morin recommended [[Kegel exercise]]s for people interested in rectal sex to eliminate the third ballot; possibility of loss of [[muscle tone]], though he claimed he had to stand as a moderate on never observed muscle loosening himself and the slavery issue in order to gain the nominationcomment was primarily concerned with insertion of fists and other large objects. The party's platform insists on leaving slavery alone in <ref>[http://www.sexuality.org/morin98.html Clinical Aspects of rectal Sexuality] Jack Morin, 1998 joint conference of the states where it already existed and against Society for the spread Scientific Study of it into Sexuality and the territories. American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (Bowmanheld in Los Angeles, pg 40from November 11-15). Retrieved [[2007-04-29]]</ref>
The Democrats reconvene their convention in Baltimoredanger of rectal cancer may be reduced by an [[HPV vaccine]]. According to Dr Anne Szarewski, Maryland"Men who have sex with men are at a much higher risk than average of rectal cancer and [[genital wart]]s, in June. Stephen Douglas is nominated for the presidency after the Southern delegates walk out again; particularly if they would hold their own convention later in Balitmore and nominate Viceare HIV-President John C. Breckenridge on a platform calling for positive," and this population may benefit from the right to slaveryvaccine. (Bowman, pg<ref>[http://news. 40)bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6342105.stm Gay men seek 'female cancer' jab] Michelle Roberts, BBC News, [[23 February]] [[2007]], retrieved [[2007-04-29]]</ref>
The election centered on [[sectionalism]] and slavery, with each candidate doing little more than fanning the fears of the voters; Douglas would be the only one to travel the country personally, including all Southern states, but the split within his party was too great to make a difference. Lincoln went on to win the election, with 180 electoral votes, and 40% of the popular votes, none of which included a Southern state. Breckenridge placed second, winning 72 electoral votes, and 24% of the popular vote. John C. Bell, a candidate for the Constitutional Union Party (made up of former Whigs and former members of a nativist American party derisively called "[[Know Nothings]]"), took the states of [[Virginia]], [[Kentucky]], and [[Tennessee]]. Last was Douglas, barely managing Missouri, and three out of seven electoral votes from New Jersey. Southern leaders speak openly about secession within days of Lincoln's victory. (Bowman, pg 40; Nat. Atlas)==Legal issues=={{main|Sodomy law}}
==The Secession==[[Image:CMercury.GIF|thumb|150px|right|The Charleston ''Mercury'' newspaper printed this special broadside edition on December 20legal status of rectal sex varies greatly between jurisdictions, 1860, just as news reached the editors that South Carolina had withdrawn from the Union.]][[image:President-Jefferson-Davis.jpg|thumb|150px|right|Jefferson Davisbeing completely open and legal, President of the Confederate States of America.]]By December of 1860, both houses of Congress were working on proposals to being illegal for compromises that would postpone the split they knew was coming. [[John J. Crittenden]] of the Senate committee introduced a proposal that would restore the Missouri Compromise by extending the northern boundary line across the continent male to the Pacificmale participation, intending that it would last for all time. Crittenden's proposal, as well as the others, came down to a vote, but events would prove it was too lateonly being legal in marriage or even totally outlawed. Most of President Buchanan's cabinet, long angered at him (In some areas where rectal sex may otherwise be legal and his predecessor, Democrat Franklin Pierce) for not standing up to Southern demands which were tearing the country apart, walked out in protest; participants are above the latest outrage occurred when general [[age of consent]] there exists a delegation from South Carolina arrived at the White House and demanded the removal higher age of Federal troops from the state (Buchanan rejects it). And President-elect Lincoln, although trying to be careful regarding the slavery issue, is insistent that slavery not be expanded into the territories. (Bowman, pgconsent for rectal sex. 41)
On December 20, 1860===United States===Until 2003, the South Carolina government votes to secede legality of rectal sex varied from state to state. In some states, the Unionpractice was illegal. Within days they begin war preparationsNew York, and seize Federal property<ref>New York: ''[[People v. By the end of the month Major Robert Anderson spiked the cannon and removed the force stationed at Fort Moultrie in Charleston Harbor; nearby Fort Sumter is considered more defensibleOnofre]]'', and he places the force there[[case citation|415 N. Aware of AndersonE.2d 936]] (N.Y. 1980)</ref> Montana,<ref>Montana: ''[[Gryczan v. Montana]]''s condition, President Buchanan orders reinforcements sent[[case citation|942 P.2d 112]] (1997)</ref> Kentucky, <ref>Kentucky: ''[[Commonwealth v. Wasson]]'', [[case citation|842 S.W.2d 487]] (1992)</ref> Pennsylvania,<ref>Pennsylvania: ''[[Commonwealth v. Bonadio]]'', [[case citation|490 Pa. 91, 415 A.2d 47]] (Pa. 1980)</ref> and USS Georgia<ref>Georgia: ''Brooklyn[[Powell v. Georgia]]'' is readied for that purpose in Norfolk; she would be replaced days later , [[case citation|270 Ga. 327, 510 S.E. 2d 18]] (1998)</ref> had their anti-sodomy laws challenged and struck down by General [[Winfield Scottstate supreme court]]decisions, but other states, including Texas,<ref>Texas's preference for a nonappeals court upholds its anti-Naval supply ship, sodomy statute: ''Star of the West[[Baker v. Wade]]'', [[553 F. Supp. 1121]] (N.D.Tex. 1982)</ref> upheld their state's laws criminalizing such conduct.
On January 6In 1986, 1861, Florida troops take during the Federal arsenal at case of ''[[ApalachicolaBowers v. Hardwick]]'', [[case citation|478 U. Fort Marion at StS. Augustine is seized on the 7th. On the 9th186]], the ''Star [[United States Supreme Court]] decided that there was no [[constitutional right]] to privacy with respect to acts of rectal sex performed in the Westprivacy of one'' would be fired upon as she neared Charleston, causing her to turn around and head back to Norfolks home. That same day public celebrations erupt A Georgia law criminalizing consensual sodomy in Mississippi as the state legislature votes 84-15 privacy of one's home was therefore found not to secedebe unconstitutional.*January 10, Florida votes 67-2 to secedeThe [[Supreme Court of Georgia (U.*January 11, Alabama votes 69-31 to secedeS.*January 19state)|Supreme Court of Georgia]], in the case of ''[[Powell v. Georgia votes 208-89 to secede]]'' [[case citation|270 Ga.*January 26327, Louisiana votes 114-17 to secede510 S.*February 1E. 2d 18]] (1998), Texas votes 166-7 to secedehowever, later found that statute inconsistent with the [[Georgia (U.S. state) Constitution|Georgia state constitution]].
On February 4thIn 2003, a[[ peace conventionSupreme court|the Supreme Court]] meets revisited ''Bowers'' in Washington, headed by former President the case of ''[[John TylerLawrence v. Texas]]'', [[case citation|539 U. The 131 members from 21 states (none from the South) work out a lastS. 558]], desperate compromise to save and found the Union. Speaking Texas law against consensual sodomy to be unconstitutional. This invalidated all statutes in the delegates, Tyler implores United States that "would make consensual sodomy illegal. The principle has also been held applicable in other cases; the eyes [[Supreme Court of the whole country are turned to this assembly, Virginia]] decided in expectation and hope''[[Martin v." The convention ends in failureZiherl]]'', [[case citation|607 S. E.2d 367]] (Bowman, pgVa. 452005), that the generally unenforced law against [[fornication]] was unconstitutional based on ''Lawrence''.
In Montgomery, Alabama, == Cultural issues ==[[Image:Suzuki Harunobu Shunga.jpg|thumb|A [[shunga]] print depicting a provisional congress assembles man and draws up a constitution by the end of the week; this document is essentially the United States Constitutionyouth]] Historically, but mildly altered to include provisions for states' rights and protection for slavery:*''The importation a number of Negroes of the African race from any foreign country other than the slaveholding States or territories of the United States of America, is hereby forbidden; and Congress is required to pass such laws as shall effectually prevent the same. Congress shall also cultures have power to prohibit recorded the introduction practice of slaves from any State not a member of, or territory not belonging to, this Confederacymale-male rectal intercourse.'' *''The Privilege of the Writ of [[Habeas Corpus]] shall males who participated in such relationships often did not be suspendeddo so exclusively, unless when as participation in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require itthese male-male relationships did not preclude sex with women. No [[Bill Such relations have also been documented as taking place in houses of Attainder]] or ex post facto Lawprostitution, which provided youths or law denying or impairing the right of property in Negro slaves, shall be passedyoung men.'' (Article 1, section IX)[http://www.civilwarhome.com/csconstitution.htm]
On February 9=== Ancient and non-Western cultures ===The term "Greek love" has long been used to refer to the practice, and in modern times, "doing it the Greek way" is sometimes used as [[slang]] for rectal sex. However, homosexual rectal sex was far from a surprised universally accepted practice in [[Jefferson DavisAncient Greece]] learns he has been elected provisional president of . It was the newly-formed target of jokes in surviving comedies; [[Confederate States of AmericaAristophanes]]; his vicemockingly alludes to the practice, claiming that "Most citizens are europroktoi (wide-president is arsed) now."<ref>[http://www.fullbooks.com/The-Eleven-Comediesx46527.html The Eleven Comedies]Aristophanes et al, Part 7 out of 8, retrieved </ref> While [[Alexander StephensPederasty in ancient Greece|pedagogic pederasty]] was an important part of Georgiasociety, these relationships were not necessarily sexual. The two There are considered moderate enough to please the legislatures very few works of the remaining Southern states pottery and other art that display rectal sex between older men and boys, or even adult men. There are many more such works depicting [[intercrural sex]], which have was not yet secededcondemned for feminizing the boys.Other sources make it clear that the practice was criticized as shameful.<ref>[[Aesop]], "Zeus and Shame" (Perry 109, Chambry 118, Gibbs 528), in ''Fables''</ref>
===Fort Sumter===[[Image:FtsumWarren Cup BM GR 1999.4-26.1 n1.jpg|thumb|250pxleft|rightHomosexual rectal sex was known in ancient Greek and Roman societies, here depicted between [[Ancient Rome|Fort Sumter under Roman]] males on the Confederate flag, April 1861[[Warren Cup]].]]On the 4th of March, 1861, Abraham Lincoln is inaugurated as the nation's 16th president. In his address he reiterated his stance, and what he believed the stance of the nation should be, namely non-interference with slavery where it existed, and preventing slavery to spread in the territories, and above all was his stand to preserve the Union. The substance of what he said was conciliatory, but it also mentioned the obvious:
:''"In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymenrectal sex was described, and not in minepraised, is the momentous issue of in [[civil warGreek literature|Greek poetry]]. The Government will , usually with youths who had attained the proper age, but had not assail youyet become adults. You can have Seducing children into the practice was considered very shameful for the adult, and having such relations with a male who was no conflict without being yourselves longer adolescent was considered more shameful for the aggressorsyoung male than for the one mounting him. You have no oath registered in heaven Greek courtesans, or [[hetaera]]e, are said to destroy the Governmenthave frequently practiced heterosexual rectal intercourse as a means of preventing pregnancy, while I shall a matter in dispute.{{Fact|date=January 2007}} How acceptable rectal sex was may also have varied with the most solemn one to "preserve, protecttime-period and the location, as Ancient Greece spanned a long time and defend itstretched over three continents and two major seas."'' [http://www.pbs.org/civilwar/war/lincoln_address1.html]
After communications between [[Fort Sumter]] and Charleston broke down over quietly surrendering For a male citizen to take the fortpassive (or receptive) role in rectal intercourse was (traditionally) frowned upon in Rome, Confederate General [[P.G.T. Beauregard]] knew reinforcing while playing the fort active role with a young slave was certain, and he may have been aware of a supply ship already on its way from Norfolkmore likely to be ignored. He ordered the fort shelled on April 12, 1861; In fact the honor Romans thought of firing the first gun went to an ardent secessionist from Virginiarectal sex as something specifically "Greek, 66-year-old Edmund Ruffin. The fort surrendered on April 14 after 36 hours " although Roman men often availed themselves of bombardment, the single fatality of the engagement was to a Union soldier, killed when a cannon exploded as they were readying a final salutetheir own slaves or others in this way. Major Anderson and his force were immediately paroled<ref>Quignard, and were allowed to leave on the supply ship a few hours later.Pascal (1996) ''Le Sexe et l'effroi''</ref>
The American Civil War had begunIn Japan, records (including detailed [[shunga]]) leave no question that at least some male-male couples did engage in penetrative rectal intercourse.[[Image:Larcomuseumrectalsex.jpg|thumb|Man and woman having rectal sex. Ceramic, Moche Culture. 300 A.D.]]
==Next articles==*Evidence suggestive of widespread heterosexual rectal intercourse in a pre-modern culture can be found in the erotic vases, or stirrup-spout pots, made by the [http://www[Moche]] people of Peru; in a survey<ref>[[Rafael Larco Hoyle]] and Dr.conservapediaFrancisco Guerra, quoted in Tannahill, Reay (1992) ''Sex in History'', p.com297-298</American_Civil_War:_1861 Continue ref> of a collection of these pots, it was found that 31 percent of them depicted heterosexual rectal intercourse, more by far than any other sex act. Moche pottery of this type belonged to the events world of the Civil War in 1861dead, which was believed to be a reversal of life. Thus the reverse of common practices was often portrayed. The [[Larco Museum]*] houses an [http://www.conservapediamuseolarco.comorg/American_Civil_War:_1862 1862iep_er.shtml Erotic Gallery]in which this pottery is showcased.*The 19th century anthropologist [[Richard Francis Burton]] has theorized that there is a geographical [[Sotadic zone]] wherein male/male penetrative intercourse is particularly prevalent and accepted; moreover he was one of the first writers to advance the premise that such an orientation is biologically determined.<ref name="burton1885">{{cite web| url=http://www.conservapediafordham.comedu/American_Civil_Warhalsall/pwh/burton-te.html| first=Sir Richard Francis| last=Burton| work="Terminal Essay", from his translation of The Arabian Nights| title=Section D:_1863 1863]Pederasty| year=1885| accessdate=}}</ref>*=== Western cultures ===In many Western countries, rectal sex has generally been [[taboo]] since the [[Middle Ages]] when [[Christian heresy|heretical]] movements were sometimes attacked by accusations that their members practised rectal sex among themselves. At that time the mainstream [[Christianity|Christian]] [[clergy]] was not celibate, but the highest orders of some heretical sects were, leading to rumours that their celibacy was a sign of their attraction to members of the same sex. The term ''[[buggery]]'' originated in [[medieval]] [[Europe]] as an insult used to describe the rumoured same-sex sexual practices of the heretics from a sect originating in [[Bulgaria]], where its followers were called ''[[bogomil]]s''; when they spread out of the country they were called ''buggres'' (from the [[ethnonym]] ''Bulgars''). Another term for the practice, more archaic, is "pedicate" from the [[Latin language|Latin]] ''pedicare,'' with the same meaning.<ref>"I have derived the word pedicate from the Latin paedicare or pedicare, meaning "to penetrate rectally." in "The Warren Cup: homoerotic love and symposial rhetoric in silver," Note 6;''The Art Bulletin,'' March, 1999 by John Pollini [http://www.conservapediafindarticles.com/American_Civil_Warp/articles/mi_m0422/is_1_81/ai_54517307/pg_30]</ref> While men who engaged in homosexual relationships were generally suspected of engaging in rectal sex, many such individuals did not. Among these, in recent times, have been [[André Gide]], who for that reason was said to have been the pope of a religion to which he did not belong; [[Oscar Wilde]], who despite being accused of being a "[[somdomite]]" (sic) by [[John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry|the Marquess of Queensberry]] actually did not engage in rectal sex {{Fact|date=June 2007}}; and [[Noel Coward]], who had a horror of disease, and asserted when young that "I'd never do anything - well the disgusting thing they do - because I know I could get something wrong with me."<ref>Philip Hoare, ''Noel Coward:_1864 1864A Biography'' p.18</ref> === In Judaism, Christianity, and Islam ===[[Image:Sodoma - Elluin.jpg|thumb|upright|[[François Elluin]], ''Sodomites provoking divine wrath'', from ''Le pot-pourri'' ([[1781]])]]*This prohibition of the [[Abrahamic religion]]s against rectal sex has been promulgated under the rubric of "[[sodomy]]," which includes various other transgressions of a sexual nature, whether with men, women or animals, or, according to some, as "not supporting the poor and the needy."{{Fact|date=August 2007}} This idea is vividly brought to life in the popular interpretation of the story of Sodom, where the people were prone to sexual immorality, and as a result were destroyed. There are conflicting views as to why Sodom was destroyed. ====Judaism====[[Orthodox Judaism]] teaches that sodomy is homosexual rectal sex, and is a sin and toevah (abomination), based on the Bible passages Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13; the injunction "Do not lie with a man the lyings of a woman; it is abhorrent." has led rabbinical scholars to conclude "these verses to prohibit rectal sex between men without any exception."<ref>[http://www.conservapediarabbinevins.comorg/American_Civil_War:_1865 1865HHH%20Dorff%20Nevins%20Reisner%20Final2.pdf HOMOSEXUALITY, HUMAN DIGNITY & HALAKHAH]*a combined responsum forThe Committee on Jewish Law and StandardsbyRABBIS ELLIOT N. DORFF, DANIEL S. NEVINS & AVRAM I. REISNERThis responsum was approved by the CJLS on 15 Kislev 5767 / [[December 6]], [[2006]] by a vote ofthirteen in favor and twelve opposed. Retrieved [[2007-04-29]]</ref> The Conservative, Reform and Reconstructionist branches of Judaism are accepting of homosexuality, but less so of sodomy.<ref>{{cite web | last = Silver | first = Ian | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = Homosexuality And Judaism | work = | publisher = ReligionFacts | date = 1995 | url = http://www.conservapediabetham.comorg/American_Civil_Warkulanu/iansilver.html | format = | doi = | accessdate = 2006-09-09 }}</ref> However, Judaism permits heterosexual rectal sex. <ref>A man’s wife is permitted to him. Therefore a man may do whatever he wishes with his wife. He may have intercourse with her at any time he wishes and kiss her on whatever limb of her body he wants. He may have natural or unnatural sex, as long as he does not bring forth seed in vain. However, it is a sign of piety not to show too much levity but to sanctify himself at the time of intercourse… A man should not depart from the way of the world and its custom because its ultimate purpose is procreation. ([[Mishnah Torah]] Issurei Biah 21:_Aftermath Aftermath9)See also [[Talmud]] tractate Nedarim 20 b</ref> ====Christianity====In Christian countries it has often been referred to euphemistically as the ''peccatum contra naturam'' (the sin against nature, after [[Thomas Aquinas]]) or ''Sodomitica luxuria'' (sodomitical lusts, in one of Charlemagne's ordinances), or ''peccatum illud horribile, inter christianos non nominandum'' (that horrible sin that among Christians is not to be named). Although some [[Christian denomination]]s disapprove of rectal sex, some believe it to be acceptable. ====Islam====''Liwat,'' or the sin of Lot's people, is officially prohibited by most Islamic sects. There are parts of the Qur'an which talk about smiting on [[Sodom and Gomorrah]], and this is thought to be a reference to unnatural sex, and so there are [[hadith]] and Islamic laws which prohibit it. Practitioners of rectal relations are called ''luti'' and are seen as criminals in the same way that a thief is a criminal, meaning that they are giving in to a universal temptation. Liwat with a woman is known as ''lesser liwat'' and with a man as ''greater liwat.'' Punishment for transgression can be severe, involving flaggellation or even death.<ref>Anwar, Ghazala. 2001. "Islam, Homosexuality and Migration". Foundation Conference on Islam in the West and Homosexuality. "Some scholars refer back to the Shari’ah rules ... argue that rectal sex between men, as considered equivalent to heterosexual intercourse, is punishable by one hundred whiplashes for an unmarried man and death by stoning for a married man. Other traditional scholars have ruled that “sodomy” between men is always punishable by death for both partners, whether married or not, based on a hadith. The punishment of toppling a wall on two men who practised “sodomy,” which is sometimes reported, particularly in Afghanistan, is based on another hadith."</ref> Men who play the role of receptive partner in the practice are known as ''ibneh'' and are considered to be suffering from a disease, ''ubnah.'' The active partner, however, is considered as being especially masculine, all the more so if the penetrated person is a "non-believer."{{Fact|date=October 2007}} == See also =={{Portal|Sexuality}}{{commonscat|rectal sex}}* [[rectal chicken-choking]]* [[Orgasm#rectal orgasm|rectal orgasm]]* [[Anilingus]]* [[Ass to mouth]], (''ATM'' or ''A2M'')* [[Barebacking]]* [[Buggery]]* [[Coprophilia]]* [[Dirty Sanchez]]* [[Baseball metaphor|Fifth base]]* [[Homosexuality laws of the world]]* [[Islamic view of rectal sex]]* [[Klismaphilia]]* [[List of sex positions#rectal-specific positions|List of rectal sex positions]]* [[Pegging (sexual practice)]]* [[Santorum controversy]]* [[Santorum (sexual neologism)]]* [[Sodomy]]
==References==
*Time-Life Books ''The Civil War'', vol. 1 (''Brother Against Brother''), Time Inc, New York (1983)*Time-Life Books ''The Civil War'', vol. 15 (''Gettysburg''), Time Inc, New York (1983)*Nevins, Allan. ''Ordeal of the Union: A House Dividing'', Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, (1947)*Bowman, John S. (editor), ''The Civil War Almanac'' World Almanac Publications, New York (1985){{reflist|3}}
==Links======The Official Records of the War of the Rebellion==External links and references==*[http://cdlwww.libraryalt-times.cornell.edu/moacom/moa_browsealtsex.html Official Records, from Cornell UniversityAdvice on rectal Sex]*[http://ehistorywww.osusexuality.eduorg/osul/sourcessex/records/defaultelffaq.cfm?CFID=2953054&CFTOKEN=64723065&jsessionid=de3014246f1a3c587075TR Official Records, from eHistory.comhtml#rectalsex rectal Intercourse and rectalingus]====General====*[http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/civil_war_maps Library of Congress Civil War map collection]*[http://www.civil-warfrom alt.net The Civil War Homepage]sex FAQ*[http://wwwsex.pbs.org/civilwar The PBS/Ken Burns documentary]*[http://www.historyplacemanageyourlovelife.com/civilwar The History Place]*[http://wwwrectal_pleasure.pueblo.gsa.gov/cic_text/misc/civilwar/civilwar.htm Civil War at a Glance; US Interior Department]*[http://www.civilwarhomephp ManageYourLoveLife.com Shotgun's home of the American Civil War]*[http://www.cwc.lsu.edu US Civil War Center, from Louisiana State University]*[http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpcoop/nhihtml/cwnyhshome.html Civil War Treasures, from New York Historical Society]*[http://quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/ Collected Works of Abraham Lincolnrectal Pleasure]
====Prelude to war==Further reading ==*[http[Toni Bentley|Bentley, Toni]] ''The Surrender://caselawAn Erotic Memoir'', Regan Books, 2004.lp.findlaw* Brent, Bill ''Ultimate Guide to rectal Sex for Men'', Cleis Press, 2002.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=60&invol=393 Full text of the Dred Scott v. Sandford]*Hite, Shere ''The Hite Report on Male Sexuality''* Houser, Ward ''rectal Sex.'' [http://wwwwilliamapercy.loc.govcom/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/Missouripub-EncyHom.html Missouri Compromisehtm '''Encyclopedia of Homosexuality.''']*[http://wwwDynes, Wayne R.loc(ed.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/kansas), Garland Publishing, 1990.html Kansaspp. 48-Nebraska act]50.*[http://blueandgraytrailManning, Lee ''The Illustrated Book Of rectal Sex'', Erotic Print Society, 2003.com/event/Compromise_of_1850 Compromise of 1850]*[httpMorin, Jack ''rectal Pleasure & Health://wwwA Guide for Men and Women'', Down There Press, 1998.usconstitution* Sanderson, Terry ''The Gay Man's Kama Sutra'', Thomas Dunne Books, 2004.net/fslave.html Text of the Fugitive Slave Law]*[httpStrong, Bill with Lori E. Gammon ''rectal Sex for Couples://wwwA Guaranteed Guide for Painless Pleasure'' Triad Press, Inc.digitalhistory.uh.edu/learning_history/brown/public_davis.cfm text of speech by Sen. Jefferson Davis; First edition, Dec2006. 8* Taormino, 1859]Tristan ''Ultimate Guide to rectal Sex for Women'', Cleis Press, 1997, 2006.*[http://memoryUnderwood, Steven G.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/P?mfd:2:./temp/~ammem_rvc6:''Gay Men and rectal Eroticism: Tops, Bottoms, and Versatiles''Lecture on John Brown, Harrington Park Press, 2003* Webb, Charlotte '' by Frederick Douglas]Masterclass: rectal Sex'', Erotic Print Society, 2007.
====Emergence of Lincoln====*[http://www.historyplace.com/lincoln/divided.htm Lincoln's "House Divided" speech]====1860 Presidential Campaign====*[http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/votes/1853_1869.html#1860 Federal Register, 1860 election results]====Secession====*[http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war/1861/march/jefferson-davis-inauguration-speech.htm Jefferson Davis Inaugural speech, as reported in Harper's Weekly]*[http://www.pbs.org/civilwar/war/lincoln_address1.html text of Licoln's first inaugural speech]*[http://www.pbs.org/civilwar/war/lincoln_address2.html Lincoln's second inaugural speech]*[http://www.civilwarhome.com/csconstitution.htm Constitution of the Confederate States]{{Sex}}
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