Citations:uranic

English citations of uranic

Adjective: "(rare, historical) of, related to, or characteristic of male same-sex erotic desire and relationships; homosexual"

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• 1894, Richard Krafft-Ebing (trans F. J. Rebman), Psychopathia Sexualis, page 341:

  From many other places in the classics the impression may be won that Uranic love attained a higher position even than her sister. More recent explanations of the homosexual instinct have emanated from philosophers, psychologists and natural scientists.

• 1908, Edward Prime-Stevenson, The Intersexes A History of Similisexualism as a Problem in Social Life, page 189:

  The patriotic assassination that so glorified Harmodios and Aristogeiton was in a vengeance for what was a homosexual marriage, we may say, between the two youths—whose uranic love was so virilized.

• 2012, Wojciech Szot, "(Non)Presence - an attempt at reconstruction", QueerWarsaw: Historical and Cultural Guide to Warsaw, page 14:

  The first text which speaks positively about homosexual people, although written in a proper stylistics according to his days, is an article by Leon Wachholz from 1900 Krytyczne uwagi w sprawie uranicznego poczucia płciowego [Critical remarks on the uranic sexual attraction].

• 2019, Philip Kerr, Metropolis, page 41:

  But the fact was that ever since Frederick the Great had forbidden women to his Praetorian Guard in the 1750s, obliging the guards to seek the company of boys for their pleasure, Berlin had been identified with soldierly inversion and uranic sexuality. Paragraph 175 of the Federal Criminal Code still forbade all homosexual activity but there were so many male prostitutes in Berlin […] that the law was more or less unenforceable.