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{{sprotect2}}| border="1" align="right" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" width="250" style="margin-left:5px"{{dablink|This article is about rectal sex in human sexual behavior. For rectal sex in other animals, see align="center" colspan="2"|[[Animal sexualityImage:Cwlogo.png|200px]].}} [[Image|-!colspan="2" align="center" style="color:Édouardwhite; height: 30px; background: navy no-Henri Avril (18).jpgrepeat scroll top left;"|thumbThe Civil War1861 - 1865|230px-|Modern erotic interpretation 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 of America|-|President|[[HadrianAbraham Lincoln]] and |-|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|[[AntinousJefferson Davis]]|-|Secretaries of War|Leroy Pope Walker, by [[ÉdouardJudah P. Benjamin, George W. Randolph, James Seddon, John C. Breckinridge|-Henri Avril|Paul Avril]]]]Secretary of the Navy[[Image:Édouard|Stephan Mallory|-Henri Avril (17).jpg|thumbSecretaries of State|230pxRobert Toombs, Robert M.T. Hunter, Judah P. Benjamin|Print}The '''American Civil War''' was a conflict which took place from 1861 to 1865, involving the government of the [[Édouard-Henri Avril|Paul AvrilUnited States of America]], 1906; and eleven southern states which seceded from the Union and formed their own government called the [[Confederate States of America]]. In F-K Forbergterms of casualties versus population the Civil War was the worst war ever fought in American history, ''Manual having involved casualties of Classical Erotology'nearly a million soldiers and civilians, roughly three percent of the country'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 '''rectal sexWar Between the States''' is a form and the '''War of [[human sexual behavior]]. While there Northern Aggression''' are many sexual acts involving popular titles in the [[anus]], rectal cavity, sphincter valve and/or [[rectum]]South, as is the term informal title ''rectal sex'The Lost Cause' is often restricted to ''rectal intercourse. Officially, the United States government has called it the '': 'War of the [[sexual intercourse|insertion]] 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 of the erect 2nd Virginia Regiment would die for the Confederacy at the [[penisBattle of Gettysburg]] into the rectum, killed on his father's farm. (TL 15, pp. 154-155)

It is a form of sexual behavior considered to be comparatively high in risk, due ==Prelude to the vulnerability war=====Description of the tissues and the septic nature North prior to 1860===The chief characteristic of the anus.<ref>"Most of the timeNorth was its industrialization, condoms work wellwhich was rapid. However, condoms are more likely Plants to break during rectal sex than during vaginal sexmanufacture metal goods sprang up almost as fast as they were invented, and after manufacture they spread quickly. Thus One example was [[John Deere]], even with who in 1840 was manufacturing a condomnew 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 1857, rectal sex can be very riskyDeere 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 area. A person should use generous amounts Farm equipment also included the first examples of watersteam-based lubricant powered plows, and in addition 1859 there were contests as to who could build and deploy the condom best plow. One such plow at a contest at Freeport, [[Illinois]] caused an official committee to reduce declare the chances of the condom breakingmachine could "plow 25 acres a day at 62.5 cents an acre" [http://wwwversus a normal manual charge of $2.cdc50 an acre.gov/hiv/resources/qa/qa22.htm Center for Disease Control; "Can I get HIV from rectal sex?"]</ref> (Nevins, pg 166-168)

== rectal intercourse ===== Male-male ===In premodern societiesInventions were not limited to farming. [[Locomotive]]s, including [[ancient Greecesewing machine]] and s, [[History of Japan|premodern Japanshoe pegger]]s, rectal sex was associated with male-male [[Pederasty|paederastic relationshipsreaper]]s, [[auger]]s, [[turbine]]s, [[hydraulics]], [[power loom]]s, [[rotary press]]es, and more seemingly raced out of factories. Manuscripts [[Standardization]] was also an American invention, meaning replacement parts could be made and art from those periods depict rectal sex ordered to replace something broken within the machine instead of replacing the machine itself, as Connecticut's [[Samuel Colt]] first demonstrated with his new [[revolver]]. And to keep up with the main or only sexual activity exporting demand, Northern shipyards produced so many ships that occurred in such relationshipsthey threatened to eclipse their chief rival, Great Britain.(TL 1, pg 18)

In modern times, particularly in The North was also a melting pot of [[Western cultureimmigration]]s. Northern cities were crowded and boisterous, rectal sex has been popularly associated with [[Homosexuality|gay]] and [[Bi-sexuality|bisexual]] menexpanding rapidly. In particular, rectal sex has been associated with the spread of [[HIVNew York]]'s population had jumped from 515, especially 000 to 814,000 in early years of the discovery of the disease. This resulted in 1850's; [[gay bathhouseChicago]]'s in some [[United States|American]] cities being shut down had gone from its 1837 incorporation with barely more than 4,000 people to over 112,000 by public-health authorities1860.(TL 1, pg 16)

Among [[gay]] men who have rectal sex, some consistently take ===Description of the [[top (sex)|top]] (insertive) or [[bottom (sex)|bottom]] (receptive) roleSouth prior to 1860===The South was largely agrarian. A Southern boast, but this "Cotton is not always king!" became very true by the case: some men who have rectal sex act 1850's, as both top cotton was grown, harvested, and bottom at different timesshipped 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 world. This is known as "versatile" or "[[switch (sexTL 1, pg 10)|switch]]".

=== Male-female ===In several cultures receptive rectal intercourse Southern life was set by heterosexual 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 guaranteea landed gentry, since semen can leak from the anus, across the [[perineum]], and enter the [[vagina]])small minority of well-to-do planters. Also They practiced a cultivated chivalry, rectal sex is even sometimes seen as preserving female [[virginity]]kindness towards those of inferior status, because 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, Aretinoa code of honor among equals, and the Exotic| journal = English Literary History| volume = 69| issue = 2| pages = 303-334| publisher = The Johns Hopkins University Press| date = Summer [[2002]]| url = http://musea gallantry towards women.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/elh/v069/69.2daileader.pdf| accessdate = 2007-04-30}}</ref>

====rectal sex and female virginity====Though more often applied to first penetrationThe money made from cotton was spent on goods manufactured in the North,<ref>{{cite news | last = Jayson| first = Sharon| title = 'Technical virginity' becomes part of teens' equation| work = USA Today| publisher = Gannett Co. Inc.| date = as well as imports from [[2005-10-19Europe]]| url = http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2005 They had a taste for well-10-19-teens-technical-virginity_xbred horses, quality firearms, foxhounds, and the belles from fine Southern families.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> And they also studied assiduously the concept arts of "technical [[virginity]]" is sometimes conceived of as resting solely on vaginal penetration.<ref>{{cite paper| author = Ueckerwar, Jeremy E. et al| title = Going Most often spending large sums of the Way: "Technical Virginity" among Young Americans| url = http://paa2007money to send themselves or their sons to military schools.princeton.edu/download.aspx?submissionId=70881| accessdate = 2007-04-30}}</ref>In One [[Norman MailerMississippi]]'s novel ''[[Harlot's Ghost]]''planter, a character states Jefferson Davis, remarked that only in Italy, an unmarried woman had to be the South "did a maiden before and gentlemen go to a martyr behindmilitary academy who did not intend to follow the profession of arms." which implied that such women were obliged to submit to rectal sex(TL 1, and that rectal sex was consistently painful.pg 12)

In other cases first rectal intercourse is conceived But the South had several serious drawbacks. Its population at 1860 was roughly 9 million people, of as ending a separate virginity from first vaginal intercoursewhom more than 3 million were slaves,<ref>{{cite web| title = How versus more than 21 million in the North. There were only 18,000 manufacturing plants of any kind in the South, as opposed to make her enjoy rectal sex? (part I)| url = http://wwwthe North's more than 100,000.love-shop.biz/enjoy-rectal.html| accessdate = 2007-04-29}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | title = Love Bites: Taking Care Of these, only two were capable of Business| work = Eye Weekly| publisher = Toronto Star Newspapers Limited| date = producing [[2000-09-14rolled iron]]| url = http://www.eye.net/eye/issue/issue_09.14.00/columns/lovebites.php| accessdate = 2007-04-29 }}</ref> with varying degrees , one which produced [[gunpowder]], and none capable of seriousness. In a Rolling Stone interview comedian producing [[Sarah Silvermanfirearms]] joked: "I didn't lose my virginity until I was ; there were twenty-sixseven gun manufacturers in [[Massachusetts]] alone. Nineteen vaginally, but twenty-six what my boyfriend calls ' More than 70% of all [[railroad]] mileage was north of the real way.'"<ref>http://www.rollingstoneOhio River; the South had the remainder.com/news/story/8719206/dirty_rotten_princess</ref>

=== Frequency [[Slavery]]===[[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.

Determining Yet the proportion of people that engage "peculiar institution" cited more often than anything else in rectal sex, and defending states' rights was the frequency with which they do so, is rather difficultSouthern institution of slavery. Sexual surveys tend to reflect whether those surveyed have ever Africans had rectal sex, or whether they have had rectal sex been present as slaves in the last year, instead of distinguishing between those who have tried American colonies since the early 17th century; over the years the South began to see it one or a few times less as an evil and those who regularly have rectal sex. It is also thought that more of a reason for necessity; so ingrained into the difficulty is the difficulty of collecting data on a practice fabric had slavery become that remains highly stigmatized in many countriesVice President John C.{{Fact|date=October 2007}} According Calhoun was to a 2004 report, say in 1838: :''"Some research suggests that one in four heterosexuals many in the US has tried rectal sex South once believed that slavery was a moral and for one political evil. That folly and delusion are gone. We see it now in 12its true light, and regard it is an occasional or episodic practice. Other surveys suggest that seven times as many women as gay men engage the most safe and stable basis for free institutions in rectal intercourse, a figure reflecting the greater overall heterosexual populationworld."<ref>Anne-christine d’Adesky, ''Expanding 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]](TL 1, 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>pg 40)

In the 1950s Eli Whitney patented his cotton gin in 1793. Prior to that, slaves were harvesting cotton, pulling the United Kingdomseed from the boll, it was thought that about fifteen percent and packing by hand for market at a rate of male homosexuals practiced the method100 bales a week.<ref>H. Montgomery Hyde, The Love That Dared not Speak its Name; pp.6-7 </ref> The Gay Urban Men's Study (P.I. Stall, UCSF) and gin did the Young Men's Study (YMS, PI Osmond/Cataniahard work of separating the boll, UCSF), indicate that 50% enabling bales of men surveyed engage in rectal sexcotton at a rate of over 1000 a week, often more. The [[Laumann study]] claims that 80% result was the number of gay men practice itannual cotton harvests increased to three, while which saw a concurrent rise in profits made by plantation owners; the remaining 20% never engage number of slaves needed for the fields and other tasks increased as well, climbing from 300,000 in it at all1790 to over three million by 1860.

A survey conducted from 1994 to 1997 in San Francisco by the Stop AIDS Project indicated that over ===Political machinations and compromises===The '''[[Missouri Compromise (1820)]]''' allowed for the course entry of [[Maine]] into the studyUnion as a free state, among and [[men who have sex with menMissouri]]as a slave state. It was further agreed that slavery was to be excluded from territory north of the 36°30′ parallel, or the proportion engaging in rectal sex increased from 57remaining western territories.6% Before admission could be granted to 61Missouri a clause in the state's constitution provoked controversy: the exclusion of "free Negroes and mulattoes".2% Under Whig Henry Clay's influence in the U.<ref>Center for Disease ControlS. senate, ''Increases 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 in Unsafe Sex that it could be interpreted to indicate that free blacks and Rectal Gonorrhea Among Men Who Have Sex With Men -- San Franciscomulattoes did not qualify as United States citizens, California, 1994-1997''which would be put to direct test years later with a slave named Dred Scott. [http://www.cdcloc.gov/mmwRrr/previewprogram/mmwrhtmlbib/00056314ourdocs/Missouri.htmhtml], retrieved [[2007-04-29]]</ref>

==== Heterosexual ==== Another crisis arose from the request of the [[Edward O. LaumannCalifornia]]'s 1992 survey, reported in ''The Social Organization of Sexuality: Sexual Practices Territory to be admitted to the Union as a [[free state]]; this was complicated by territory acquired in the United States'' found that about 20% southwest as a result of heterosexuals have engaged in rectal sex. the [[Sexology|Sex researcherMexican War]] of 1848 and whether to extend slavery there. An omnibus bill drafted by [[Alfred KinseyHenry Clay]], working in the 1940s, had found that number to be closer to 40% at the time. More recently, a researcher from called the '''[[University Compromise of British Columbia1850]] ''' tried to give satisfaction to the southern states in 2005 put addition to California's admission: the number settlement of heterosexuals who have practiced rectal sex at between 30% the Texas-New Mexico border dispute; the slavery question open for voting via popular sovereignty in the Utah and 50%.<ref>{{cite web| title = Healthy sex is all New Mexico territories as they were organized; the end of slave trading in the talk| publisher = The Georgia Straight| date = District of Columbia; and tough requirements concerning [[2005-05-05runaway slave]]| url = s. [http://www.straightblueandgraytrail.com/articleevent/healthy-sex-is-all-in-the-talk| accessdate = 2007-06-14}}</ref>Compromise_of_1850]

A French survey of All five hundred female respondents concluded that measures were enacted in September, 1850 as a total result of 29% had practiced rectal sex, though only one third the efforts and support of these claimed to have enjoyed the experienceDemocratic senator [[Stephen A.<ref name="French">{{cite web| title = Les pratiques sexuelles des Françaises| publisher = TNS/Sofres| url = http://wwwDouglas]] and Whig senator [[Daniel Webster]], and were accepted by moderates throughout the country as well as postponing Southern [[secession]] for another decade.tns-sofres.com/etudes/pol/030701_sexualite_r.htm| accessdate = 2007-04-30| language = French}}Survey carried out But the seeds of discord were planted; the precedent of [[popular sovereignty]], championed by TNS/Sofres Douglas as the way for the public to vote whether or not they wanted slavery in their territories, led to the Kansas territory agitating for a similar provision. And the [[Fugitive Slave Act]] that was a representative sample part of 500 women from 18 the Compromise was so bitterly condemned that many moderates who had ignored slavery in the past became determined opponents to 65 years any extension of age, in April and May, 2002the institution into the territories. Many would risk jail rather than turn over runaway slaves to their owners as required by the new laws.</ref>

In 2005The '''[[Kansas–Nebraska Act]]''' (May 30, a survey conducted 1854), sponsored by the Centers Douglas, provided for Disease Control determined that the incidence territorial organization of rectal relations in Kansas and Nebraska, using his principle the heterosexual population is on the increase. The survey showed that 38.2 percent idea of men between 20 and 39 and 32popular sovereignty.6 percent of women aged 18 to 44 Douglas had engaged in heterosexual rectal sex; written the act in 1992 a similar survey found that only 25.6 percent of men 18 an effort to 59 and 20.4 percent of women 18 to 59 had.slow or halt the sectarianism <ref!-- sectional strife? -->over slavery's extension, but the Kansas-Nebraska Act merely increased the flames, and was attacked by [http://www[free-soil]] and [[abolitionist]]s as a capitulation to those who supported slavery.cdc.gov/nchs/data/ad/ad362.pdfThe [[Whig Party] 2006 survey of sexual behavior from ], ineffective in preventing it, largely disintegrated, and the CDCRepublican Party was born and soon became a viable political organization opposed to territorial expansion of slavery.</ref>

== Other rectal sexual behavior ==[[Image:Buttplug.png|thumb|A butt plug is one On the heels of 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 the act)#rectal fingering|the fingers]] and [[rectal fisting|a fist]]. The use large number of the mouth people left Missouri and tongue on sought to influence elections in the anus, called ''Kansas Territory. "[[rectal-oral contact|rimmingBorder Ruffians]]'' or rectalingus is also common", often as they were called, entered Kansas and cast thousands of illegal votes resulting in conjunction with other sexual acts. He or she might also use an artificial device, often a phallic reproduction ([[penis]]) or one pro-slave government that is generally engineered specifically for rectal penetration (Democratic president [[butt plugFranklin Pierce]]recognized, and continued doing so even after it was ruled illegitimate by a congressional investigative committee. When a female using a The territory's actual residents set up their own legislature and created the [[strap-on penisTopeka Constitution]] rectally penetrates a male; Pierce declared their endeavors an act of rebellion, and he went so far as to send in Federal troops to break it is referred to as [[pegging (sexual practice)|pegging]]up.<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>

== Prostate stimulation =Bleeding Kansas===The [[prostateImage:Brooks1.jpg|thumb|150px|right|J.L. Magee's cartoon of Preston Brooks attacking Charles Sumner on the Senate floor, May 24, 1856.]] gland, The Border Ruffians also stirred up violence between themselves and the Free-Staters, which became known as ''[[Bleeding Kansas]]'', beginning with the burning of a "male Ghotel and printing press in [[Lawrence, Kansas|Lawrence]] on May 21, 1856. Several days later an anti-spot"slavery religious fanatic named [[John Brown]] and a few followers retaliated against five pro-slavery men,"Phacking them to death with [[broadsword]]s. By August thousands of men had formed into pro-spot"slavery armies and marched into Kansas, or "Aexpecting to force the territory to accept slavery. That same month a small, pitched battle occurred near the city of [[Osawatomie]]; 300 pro-spot" can be stimulated during rectal intercourseslavery 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 territory.<ref>[http://www.talksexwithsueloc.comgov/Aspotrr/program/bib/ourdocs/kansas.html The A-Spot],Talk Sex with Sue Johansen, 2005, retrieved [[2007-04-29]]</ref>

Stimulation of The day after the [[prostate gland]] can result hotel in pleasurable sensations and can lead to Lawrence was burned, a distinct type of [[Orgasm#From the Prostatic Structure|orgasmSouth Carolina]] 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 congressman named [[homology (biology)|homologue]] to the [[Skene's glandsPreston Brooks]], also known as the "Gincensed over an anti-spot"<ref>slavery speech given by Massachusetts Senator [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 [[2007-04-29Charles Sumner]]</ref> or "female prostate",<ref>{{cite journal | author = Zaviacic M, Jakubovská V, Belosovic M, Breza J | title = Ultrastructure of walked onto the normal adult human female prostate gland (Skene's gland)senate floor and beat him with a cane so severely that Sumner took three years to recover. | journal = Anat Embryol (BerlBowman, pg 38) | 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.

== Risks =Dred Scott decision===rectal sex exposes participants [[Dred Scott]] was owned by an Army physician who was transferred to two principal dangers: infectionsthe state of Wisconsin, due a free state, for several years before a transfer to Missouri, a slave state. Scott sued on the high number grounds that his residence in a free state where slavery was illegal made him free. After a series of infectious unsuccessful lawsuits, Scott appealed to the United States Supreme Court, where in 1856, Chief Justice [[microorganismsRoger B. Taney]] delivered the majority opinion in ''Dred Scott vs. Sanford'':*Blacks were not found elsewhere on entitled to citizenship according to the bodyU.S. Constitution.*Blacks were not entitled to freedom under the Ordinance of 1797 while within the area of the Northwest Territory, of which Wisconsin was a part.*The Missouri Compromise of 1820 prohibiting slavery north of Missouri and physical damage to in free states was voided.What the anus 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, and according to the rectum Fifth Amendment could not be taken from the owner without due to their vulnerabilityprocess.[http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=60&invol=393]

Recent 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:The decision further deteriorated North//www.cdc.gov/mmwR/preview/mmwrhtml/00056314.htm], retrieved [[2007-04-29]]</ref> Likewise, among men who have sex with womenSouth relations, as a 1992 study of socially and sexually active Puerto Rican men indicated stunned North realized that of free states had to support the 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 institution of Puerto Rican men and its relevance to AIDS education, prevention and outreach in San Juan, Puerto Ricoslavery."[http://gateway.nlm.nih.gov/MeetingAbstracts/102201007.html] Accessed 9/27/2007</ref>

=== Infectious diseases Emergence of Lincoln===Among the diseases with which rectal sex is associated are HIV,<ref>[http[Image://wwwAbraham-lincoln-cooper-union.soc.ucsb.edu/sexinfo/?article=faq&refid=125 What are the Dangers of rectal Sex?]jpg|thumb|150px|right|Abraham Lincoln, SexInfoFebruary 27, University of California at Santa Barbara, retrieved [[2007-04-291860.]]</ref> [[rectal cancer]],<ref>[httpImage://wwwSDouglas.lgbthealthchanneljpg|thumb|150px|right|Stephen A.com/msmcancer/ rectal Cancer in Gay & Bisexual Men]Douglas, LGBTHealthChannel, retrieved [[2007-04-29about 1858.]]</ref> typhoid fever<ref>[http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgiThe Kansas-bin/resolve?id=doi:10.1086/375590&erFrom=-3765596048411440117Guest Sexual Transmission Nebraska Act attracted much opposition in the country and led to splitting of 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 the Democrats along the [[2007-04Mason-29Dixon line]]</ref> and various diseases associated with (Douglas in the infectious nature ensuing years tried desperately to keep it together) as well as the collapse of [[Feces|fecal matter]] or sexual intercourse in generalthe Whig Party as an effective political organization. Among these are: Many former Whigs, whose beliefs included the abolishment of slavery, flocked to the newly-formed [[AmoebiasisRepublican Party]]; [[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 [[2007their number would include a lawyer from Illinois who used the act to jump back into politics after a five-04-29]]</ref><ref>[http://health.ivillage.com/sexualhealth/sxsafe/0year absence,,6d85,00.html Diseases From rectal Sex] Harold Oster, MD, iVillage, retrieved [[2007-04-29Abraham Lincoln]]</ref><ref>[http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/tuberculosis/DS00372/DSECTION=3 Tuberculosis], The Mayo Clinic, retrieved [[2007-04-29]]</ref>

=== HIV/AIDS ===The high concentration of [[white blood cell]]s around Lincoln was nominated for the rectum, together with Senate seat held by Douglas at the risk of cuts to the rectum and that one of the functions of the rectum is to absorb fluidRepublican State Convention in Springfield on June 16, increases the risk of HIV transmission because the HIV retrovirus reproduces within the immune system's T-cells/CD4 cells1858. Use of [[condom]]s and other precautions are a medically recommended way to lessen risk of infections. Unprotected receptive rectal sex is The acceptance speech he gave has been called 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, "[[October 1House Divided]], [[2004]] / 53(38);891-894, retrieved [[2007-04-29]]</ref><ref>[http://aids.about.com/od/hivaidsstats/f/infectionrisk.htm "Am I at Risk for HIV Infection?"] Mark Cichockispeech, Aboutafter the opening lines: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>

=== Physical damage ===Physical damage :''If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it. We are now far into the rectum fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object, and anus can manifest as generalized ano-rectal traumaconfident promise, [[hemorrhoid]]sof putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, [[rectal fissure]]sthat agitation has not only not ceased,<ref name="rectalHealth">[http://wwwbut has constantly augmented.sexualhealthchannel.com/rectalhealth/ rectal Health]In my opinion, Sexual Health Channelit will not cease, retrieved [[2007until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. "A house divided against itself cannot stand." <!-- What Bible verse is this? -04-29]]</ref> I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and [[rectal prolapse]]half free. An insufficient amount 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 of lubricant can make it especially painful , and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or injuriousits advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new -- North as well as South.<ref>'' [http://www.studenthistoryplace.com/sexguide_alincoln/divided.php?id=45 Importance of Foreplayhtm] 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.

=== Incontinence ===August through October, 1858 saw seven Illinois towns witnessing the [[Fecal incontinence|IncontinenceLincoln-Douglas debates]] has also been reported; Douglas the national figure defending the result choice of voters whether to accept slavery or not, and the rectal sphincter losing its tonus.<ref>Net Doctor little- Sex known Lincoln taking a stand against slavery on political, social, and Relationships [http://wwwmoral grounds.netdoctor.co.uk/ate/sexandrelationships/sex/200700.html Does rectal sex cause incontinence?], NetDoctor.co.uk Douglas never wavered from defending popular sovereignty, and he also played on the voters' fears of [[2006-06-19black integration]]. Stating blacks were inferior to whites, retrieved [[2007-04-29]]</ref> A 1993 study published in he appealed to racists by declaring that the ''Journal of government was "established upon the Royal Society of Medicine'' found that out of a sample of forty white basis. It was made by white men receiving rectal intercourse, fourteen experienced episodes for the benefit of frequent rectal incontinencewhite men.<ref>[http://www" (TL 1, pg 106).jrsm.org/cgi/content/abstract/86/3/144 Effect Lincoln on the other hand knew Douglas was in a war of anoreceptive intercourse on anorectal functionhis own with President [[Franklin Buchanan]]AJ Miles, TG Allen-Mersh and C Wastell, Department of Surgery, Westminster Hospital, London; in ''Journal s administration over acceptance of the Royal Society of Medicine'' Vol 86Kansas constitution which barred slavery from the state, Issue 3 144-147further alienating Southern Democratic support; 1993, retrieved [[2007-04-29]]</ref> [[Tristan Taormino]] argues the fear was that Douglas would be more appealing to moderate Republicans in her book the east. Lincoln''[[The Ultimate Guide s strategy therefore was to rectal Sex for Women]]'point out and use the vast difference between the moral indifference to slavery as embodied by Douglas' that proper technique, clear communications popular sovereignty, and mutual consent can reduce the risk of incontinencemoral wrong that slavery actually was as embodied by Republican opposition to it. Douglas was, Lincoln insisted, a man who did not care whether slavery was "voted up or voted down."

=== 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 yearsDouglas retained his Senate seat, according to but by a 2004 American studynarrow margin. The increase is attributed to changing trends in sexual behavior and [[tobacco]] use. Current use of tobacco increased Lincoln, however, won the incidence of rectal cancer four-folddebates, while a history of multiple sex partners (fifteen or more) or receptive rectal sex increased which thrust him into the incidence seven-fold.<ref>Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, ''Changing Trends in Sexual Behavior May Explain Rising Incidence of rectal Cancer Among American Men national spotlight and Women''[http://wwwput him on the road to the White House.fhcrc.org/about/ne/news/2004/07/06/rectalcancer.html], retrieved [[2007-09-23]]</ref>

== Protective measures =John Brown at Harpers Ferry===As During the [[rectum|rectal]] [[mucosa]] provides insufficient natural lubricationspring of 1858, 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 [[personal lubricant|artificial lubricationabolitionist]] is most often required or preferred when penetrating the anuss also gave him financial and moral support.

Because By summer, 1859, Brown was in a rented farmhouse in Maryland, across the [[vagina|vaginal opening]] is located so close 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 to liberate their fellow slaves. For the [[anus]]next thirty hours he and his men held out against the local militia, without but on the following morning a small force of United States Marines led by Army colonel [[safe sex|proper precautionsRobert E. Lee]] it is not uncommon for sexual partners to spread bacteria from the anus quickly broke into the vagina as well as the urethraarsenal building, the repercussions wounding Brown, and killing two of which can include his sons and ten other followers. He was tried for murder, slave insurrection, <!-- that's a particular crime? --> and [[urinary tract infectiontreason]] (UTI), which can lead and at the end he was convicted and hanged. The day he was to infection of 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 the kidneyscrimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. This also happens if an object or appendage is inserted rectally and then vaginally before proper cleaning"'' (TL 1, pp.70-89)

Latex gloves or condoms can be used to reduce Ever fearful of a slave insurrection, the riskSouth became tougher on its slaves. It 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 is also possible no longer to take acceptable measures separate from such intervene in favor of protectionfor 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, which include (but we are told, will not limited 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 to) hand washing be violated and being conscious our people assailed and wary raise no arm in our defense. The sovereignty of where one's the State is no longer to be a bar to encroachments upon our rights when the Government gets into Black Republican hands . Then John Brown, and devices are placeda thousand John Browns, can invade us, and the Government will not protect us. ''[http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/learning_history/brown/public_davis.cfm]

Condoms are less effective and more prone to burst or slip during rectal sex than vaginal sexMany in the North held a different view. While one study estimates that condoms fail anywhere from 10% Brown was a martyr for abolition. The great orator [[Frederick Douglas]], an [[ex- 32% slave]] himself who was never afraid to confront the evils of the time during rectal sex,<ref name=South's "silverman1997peculiar institution">{{cite journal| last=Silverman| first= B G| coauthors= et al| title=Use and Effectiveness , perhaps offered the best assessment of 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 Brown::''His zeal in the cause of 0freedom was infinitely superior to mine.5 Mine was as the taper light, his was as the burning sun. Mine was bounded by time. His stretched away to 12%the silent shores of eternity.<ref> 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.'' [http://wwwmemory.siecusloc.orggov/pubscgi-bin/factampage?collId=mfd&fileName=22/fact001122002/22002page.db&recNum=9&tempFile=.html The Truth about Condoms] [[SIECUS]]</ref>temp/~ammem_rvc6&filecode=mfd&next_filecode=mfd&prev_filecode=mfd&itemnum=2&ndocs=32]

On this subject, the ===1860 Presidential campaign===[[US Centers for Disease ControlImage:Electionlincoln.JPG|thumb|250px|CDC]] says "Most right|Results of the time, condoms work well1860 Presidential Election. However, condoms are more likely Due to 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 the splitting of water-based lubricant in addition to the condom to reduce country on the chances slavery issue, Lincoln won only 40% of the condom breakingpopular vote."<ref>{{cite web]]|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>'' See [[United States presidential election of 1860]]''

Some manufacturers offer "extra strong" condoms designed specifically for rectal intercourse. These condomsIn April, while stronger1860, are usually not coated with the Democratic Party held its convention in [[spermicideCharleston]] , South Carolina, and so offer less protection against pregnancy should semen enter the first platform placed for a woman's vagina, but will lessen vote is pro-slavery. When it is rejected in the chance course of irritation voting, delegates from eight states in the South walk out; the remaining delegates are forced to adjourn when they cannot agree on a candidate to represent their party in the sensitive anus areaWhite House. (Bowman, pg.40)

In a 1998 joint conference of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality and the American Association of Sex EducatorsThe Republicans hold their convention in Chicago in May, Counselors1860, and Therapists, Jack Morin recommended [[Kegel exercise]]s for people interested in rectal sex to eliminate Lincoln is nominated on the possibility of loss of [[muscle tone]], though he claimed third ballot; he had never observed muscle loosening himself and to stand as a moderate on the comment was primarily concerned with insertion of fists and other large objectsslavery issue in order to gain the nomination.<ref>[http://www.sexuality.org/morin98.html Clinical Aspects of rectal Sexuality] Jack Morin, 1998 joint conference of The party's platform insists on leaving slavery alone in the Society for states where it already existed and against the Scientific Study spread of Sexuality and it into the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapists territories. (held in Los AngelesBowman, from November 11-15pg 40). Retrieved [[2007-04-29]]</ref>

The danger of rectal cancer may be reduced by an [[HPV vaccine]]. According to Dr Anne SzarewskiDemocrats reconvene their convention in Baltimore, "Men who have sex with men are at a much higher risk than average of rectal cancer and [[genital wart]]sMaryland, particularly if in June. Stephen Douglas is nominated for the presidency after the Southern delegates walk out again; they are HIVwould hold their own convention later in Balitmore and nominate Vice-positive," and this population may benefit from President John C. Breckenridge on a platform calling for the vaccineright to slavery.<ref>[http://news(Bowman, pg.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>40)

==The legal status of rectal sex varies greatly between jurisdictionsSecession==[[Image:CMercury.GIF|thumb|150px|right|The Charleston ''Mercury'' newspaper printed this special broadside edition on December 20, 1860, just as news reached the editors that South Carolina had withdrawn from being completely open and legalthe Union.]][[image:President-Jefferson-Davis.jpg|thumb|150px|right|Jefferson Davis, to being illegal President of the Confederate States of America.]]By December of 1860, both houses of Congress were working on proposals for male 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 to male participationthe Pacific, intending that it would last for all time. Crittenden's proposal, as well as the others, came down to only being legal in marriage or even totally outlaweda vote, but events would prove it was too late. In some areas where rectal sex may otherwise be legal Most of President Buchanan's cabinet, long angered at him (and his predecessor, Democrat Franklin Pierce) for not standing up to Southern demands which were tearing the participants are above country apart, walked out in protest; the general [[age of consent]] there exists latest outrage occurred when a higher age delegation from South Carolina arrived at the White House and demanded the removal of consent for rectal sexFederal 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, pg.41)

===United States===Until 2003On December 20, 1860, the legality of rectal sex varied South Carolina government votes to secede from state to state. In some states, the practice was illegalUnion. New York Within days they begin war preparations,<ref>New York: ''[[People vand seize Federal property. Onofre]]'' 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 defensible, [[case citation|415 Nand he places the force there.E.2d 936]] (N.Y. 1980)</ref> Montana,<ref>Montana: ''[[Gryczan v. Montana]]' Aware of Anderson's condition, [[case citation|942 P.2d 112]] (1997)</ref> KentuckyPresident Buchanan orders reinforcements sent,<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 Georgia<ref>Georgia: USS ''[[Powell v. Georgia]]Brooklyn'', [[case citation|270 Ga. 327, 510 S.E. 2d 18]] (1998)</ref> had their anti-sodomy laws challenged and struck down is readied for that purpose in Norfolk; she would be replaced days later by General [[state supreme courtWinfield Scott]] decisions, but other states, including Texas,<ref>Texas' appeals court upholds its antis preference for a non-sodomy statute: Naval supply ship, ''[[Baker v. Wade]]Star of the West'', [[553 F. Supp. 1121]] (N.D.Tex. 1982)</ref> upheld their state's laws criminalizing such conduct.

In 1986On January 6, during 1861, Florida troops take the case of ''Federal arsenal at [[Bowers v. HardwickApalachicola]]'', [[case citation|478 U.S Fort Marion at St. 186]]Augustine is seized on the 7th. On the 9th, the [[United States Supreme Court]] decided that there was no [[constitutional right]] to privacy with respect to acts ''Star of rectal sex performed in the privacy of oneWest's home' would be fired upon as she neared Charleston, causing her to turn around and head back to Norfolk. A Georgia law criminalizing consensual sodomy That same day public celebrations erupt in Mississippi as the privacy of one's home was therefore found not state legislature votes 84-15 to be unconstitutionalsecede. The [[Supreme Court of Georgia (U*January 10, Florida votes 67-2 to secede.S*January 11, Alabama votes 69-31 to secede. state)|Supreme Court of Georgia]]*January 19, in the case of ''[[Powell v. Georgia]]'' [[case citation|270 Gavotes 208-89 to secede. 327*January 26, 510 SLouisiana votes 114-17 to secede.E. 2d 18]] (1998)*February 1, however, later found that statute inconsistent with the [[Georgia (U.S. state) Constitution|Georgia state constitution]]Texas votes 166-7 to secede.

In 2003On February 4th, a[[Supreme court|the Supreme Courtpeace convention]] revisited ''Bowers'' meets in the case of ''Washington, headed by former President [[Lawrence v. TexasJohn Tyler]]'', [[case citation|539 U.S. 558]] The 131 members from 21 states (none from the South) work out a last, and found desperate compromise to save the Texas law against consensual sodomy Union. Speaking to be unconstitutional. This invalidated all statutes in the United States delegates, Tyler implores that would make consensual sodomy illegal. The principle has also been held applicable in other cases; "the [[Supreme Court eyes of Virginia]] decided the whole country are turned to this assembly, in ''[[Martin vexpectation and hope. Ziherl]]'', [[case citation|607 S" The convention ends in failure.E.2d 367]] (VaBowman, pg. 200545), that the generally unenforced law against [[fornication]] was unconstitutional based on ''Lawrence''.

== Cultural issues ==[[Image:Suzuki Harunobu Shunga.jpg|thumb|A [[shunga]] print depicting In Montgomery, Alabama, a man provisional congress assembles and draws up a youth]] Historicallyconstitution by the end of the week; this document is essentially the United States Constitution, a number but mildly altered to include provisions for states' rights and protection for slavery:*''The importation of cultures 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 have recorded power to prohibit the practice introduction of male-male rectal intercourseslaves from any State not a member of, or territory not belonging to, this Confederacy. '' *''The males who participated in such relationships often did Privilege of the Writ of [[Habeas Corpus]] shall not do so exclusivelybe suspended, as participation unless when in these male-male relationships did not preclude sex with womenCases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it. Such relations have also been documented as taking place in houses No [[Bill of prostitutionAttainder]] or ex post facto Law, which provided youths or young menlaw denying or impairing the right of property in Negro slaves, shall be passed.'' (Article 1, section IX)[http://www.civilwarhome.com/csconstitution.htm]

=== 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. HoweverOn February 9, homosexual rectal sex was far from a universally accepted practice in surprised [[Ancient GreeceJefferson Davis]]. It was learns he has been elected provisional president of the target of jokes in surviving comedies; newly-formed [[AristophanesConfederate States of America]] mockingly alludes to the practice, claiming that "Most citizens are europroktoi (wide; his vice-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 president is [[Pederasty in ancient Greece|pedagogic pederastyAlexander Stephens]] was an important part of society, these relationships were not necessarily sexualGeorgia. There The two are very few works considered moderate enough to please the legislatures of 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]], the remaining Southern states which was have not condemned for feminizing the boysyet seceded. 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:Warren Cup BM GR 1999.4-26.1 n1Ftsum.jpg|thumb|left250px|Homosexual rectal sex was known in ancient Greek and Roman societies, here depicted between [[Ancient Romeright|Roman]] males on Fort Sumter under the [[Warren Cup]]Confederate flag, April 1861.]] 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:

rectal sex was described:''"In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and praisednot in mine, in is the momentous issue of [[Greek literature|Greek poetrycivil war]], usually with youths who had attained the proper age, but had . The Government will not yet become adultsassail you. Seducing children into the practice was considered very shameful for the adult, and having such relations with a male who was You can have no longer adolescent was considered more shameful for conflict without being yourselves the young male than for the one mounting himaggressors. Greek courtesans, or [[hetaera]]e, are said You have no oath registered in heaven to have frequently practiced heterosexual rectal intercourse as a means of preventing pregnancydestroy the Government, a matter in dispute.{{Fact|date=January 2007}} How acceptable rectal sex was may also while I shall have varied with the time-period and the locationmost solemn one to "preserve, protect, as Ancient Greece spanned a long time and stretched over three continents and two major seasdefend it."'' [http://www.pbs.org/civilwar/war/lincoln_address1.html]

For a male citizen to take After communications between [[Fort Sumter]] and Charleston broke down over quietly surrendering the passive (or receptive) role in rectal intercourse was (traditionally) frowned upon in Romefort, while playing Confederate General [[P.G.T. Beauregard]] knew reinforcing the active role with a young slave fort was more likely to be ignoredcertain, and he may have been aware of a supply ship already on its way from Norfolk. In fact He ordered the fort shelled on April 12, 1861; the Romans thought honor of rectal sex as something specifically "Greekfiring the first gun went to an ardent secessionist from Virginia," although Roman men often availed themselves 66-year-old Edmund Ruffin. The fort surrendered on April 14 after 36 hours of their own slaves or others in this waybombardment, the single fatality of the engagement was to a Union soldier, killed when a cannon exploded as they were readying a final salute.<ref>Quignard Major Anderson and his force were immediately paroled, Pascal (1996) ''Le Sexe et l'effroi''</ref>and were allowed to leave on the supply ship a few hours later.

In Japan, records (including detailed [[shunga]]) leave no question that at least some male-male couples did engage in penetrative rectal intercourseThe American Civil War had begun.[[Image:Larcomuseumrectalsex.jpg|thumb|Man and woman having rectal sex. Ceramic, Moche Culture. 300 A.D.]]

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 ==Next articles==*[[Moche]] people of Peru; in a survey<ref>[[Rafael Larco Hoyle]] and Drhttp://www. Francisco Guerra, quoted in Tannahill, Reay (1992) ''Sex in History'', pconservapedia. 297-298<com/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 American_Civil_War:_1861 Continue to the world events of the dead, which was believed to be a reversal of life. Thus the reverse of common practices was often portrayed. The [[Larco MuseumCivil War in 1861]] houses an *[http://www.museolarcoconservapedia.orgcom/iep_er.shtml Erotic GalleryAmerican_Civil_War:_1862 1862] 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.fordhamconservapedia.educom/halsall/pwh/burton-te.html| first=Sir Richard Francis| last=Burton| work="Terminal Essay", from his translation of The Arabian Nights| title=Section DAmerican_Civil_War: Pederasty| year=1885| accessdate=}}</ref>_1863 1863] === 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.findarticlesconservapedia.com/p/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 CowardAmerican_Civil_War: A 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]])]_1864 1864]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.rabbinevinsconservapedia.orgcom/HHH%20Dorff%20Nevins%20Reisner%20Final2.pdf HOMOSEXUALITY, HUMAN DIGNITY & HALAKHAHAmerican_Civil_War:_1865 1865]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.bethamconservapedia.orgcom/kulanu/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 21American_Civil_War:9)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]_Aftermath Aftermath]

==External links and referencesLinks======The Official Records of the War of the Rebellion====* [http://wwwcdl.alt-timeslibrary.comcornell.edu/moa/altsexmoa_browse.html Advice on rectal SexOfficial Records, from Cornell University]* [http://wwwehistory.sexualityosu.orgedu/losu/sexsources/elffaqrecords/default.html#rectalsex rectal Intercourse and rectalinguscfm?CFID=2953054&CFTOKEN=64723065&jsessionid=de3014246f1a3c587075TR Official Records, from eHistory.com] ====General====*[http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/civil_war_maps Library of Congress Civil War map collection]*[http://www.civil- from altwar.sex FAQnet The Civil War Homepage]* [http://sexwww.manageyourlovelifepbs.org/civilwar The PBS/Ken Burns documentary]*[http://www.historyplace.com/rectal_pleasurecivilwar The History Place]*[http://www.php ManageYourLoveLifepueblo.gsa.gov/cic_text/misc/civilwar/civilwar.htm Civil War at a Glance; US Interior Department]*[http://www.civilwarhome.comShotgun's home of the American Civil War]*[http: rectal Pleasure//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 Lincoln]

== Further reading ==Prelude to war====* [[Toni Bentley|Bentley, Toni]] ''The Surrenderhttp: An Erotic Memoir'', Regan Books, 2004//caselaw.* Brent, Bill ''Ultimate Guide to rectal Sex for Men'', Cleis Press, 2002lp.findlaw.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://williamapercywww.comloc.gov/pub-EncyHomrr/program/bib/ourdocs/Missouri.htm '''Encyclopedia of Homosexuality.'''html Missouri Compromise] Dynes, Wayne R*[http://www. (edloc.), Garland Publishing, 1990gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/kansas. pp. 48html Kansas-50.Nebraska act]* Manning, Lee ''The Illustrated Book Of rectal Sex'', Erotic Print Society, 2003[http://blueandgraytrail.com/event/Compromise_of_1850 Compromise of 1850]* Morin, Jack ''rectal Pleasure & Health[http: A Guide for Men and Women'', Down There Press, 1998//www.* Sanderson, Terry ''The Gay Man's Kama Sutra'', Thomas Dunne Books, 2004usconstitution.net/fslave.html Text of the Fugitive Slave Law]* Strong, Bill with Lori E. Gammon ''rectal Sex for Couples[http: A Guaranteed Guide for Painless Pleasure'' Triad Press, Inc//www.; First editiondigitalhistory.uh.edu/learning_history/brown/public_davis.cfm text of speech by Sen. Jefferson Davis, 2006Dec.* Taormino8, Tristan ''Ultimate Guide to rectal Sex for Women'', Cleis Press, 1997, 2006.1859]* Underwood, Steven G[http://memory. ''Gay Men and rectal Eroticismloc.gov/cgi-bin/query/P?mfd:2:./temp/~ammem_rvc6:: Tops, Bottoms, and Versatiles'', Harrington Park Press, 2003* Webb, Charlotte Lecture on John Brown''Masterclass: rectal Sex'', Erotic Print Society, 2007.by Frederick Douglas]

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