"in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was infrequently labeled a 'paedophile'. Of principal concern to sexologists were sexual deviations with respect to the aim or gender of object choice, not the age of object choice."
Note from Reclaiming Natural manhood site:
The concept of Homosexuality was invented by the late nineteenth century Sexologists (sexologists were themselves a new concept invented around that time), who were bent on isolating sodomy as a deviant behaviour. It was through their faulty definitions that the concept of modern Homosexuals and heterosexual came into place.
What happened was that, the act of sodomy was much less practised, at least visibly, in Christian societies, and was easier to isolate as a 'sin' or 'deviant' behaviour that only some males indulge in. Receptive anal sex was in particular acknowledged only by effeminate males who were part of the third gender, who were not considered 'men,' as it was extremely stigmatized for men.
When these 'sexologists' were seeking to isolate sodomy as a deviant behaviour, they misdefined this deviant group not as "males who seek anal sex" but "males who like men." Now, man to man desire as such (and not related with the desire to be anally penetrated) was not considered to be something restricted to a few 'different'/ 'pathological'/ 'effeminate' individuals, but was believed to be a universal phenomena, and not necessarily stigmatized. The only stigmatized acts were sodomy (religiously) and particularly receptive anal sex, which was considered to be extremely unmanly.
It is noteworthy, that the leading 'sexologists' who invented the concepts of 'homosexuality' were members of the third gender who were "women in the bodies of men," rather than the average man who desired men. What is more, they were not even qualified in the emerging field of sexology. Their ideas suited the anti-man agenda which was gaining tremendous ground in the West and they just took to it.
