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--part1_2f.119d3d20.27cf22be_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 2/28/01 9:45:43 PM Eastern Standard Time, [log in to unmask] writes: > Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (1825-1895) > > Beginning in 1864, under the pseudonym "Numa Numantius," Ulrichs wrote a > series of five booklets called "Researches into the Riddle of Love Between > Men" in which he began to develop a theory of homosexuality. Men who love > men, he argued, consist of a female soul trapped in a male body. They are > neither male nor female in the conventional sense, but rather a third sex, > which he called "Urning"--or "Uranian"--after the famous myth in Plato's > Symposium in which Pausanias calls love between men "the beautiful love, the > Heavenly love, the love belonging to the Heavenly Muse Urania." > > > > > > > Well, this is certainly in consonance with the Greek idea that love between men was more exalted than love between men and women. But i didn't know they linked it to Urania. So I stand corrected. pat --part1_2f.119d3d20.27cf22be_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial Narrow" LANG="0"><B>In a message dated 2/28/01 9:45:43 PM Eastern Standard Time, <BR>[log in to unmask] writes: <BR> <BR></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"></B> <BR><BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (1825-1895) <BR> <BR>Beginning in 1864, under the pseudonym "Numa Numantius," Ulrichs wrote a <BR>series of five booklets called "Researches into the Riddle of Love Between <BR>Men" in which he began to develop a theory of homosexuality. Men who love <BR>men, he argued, consist of a female soul trapped in a male body. They are <BR>neither male nor female in the conventional sense, but rather a third sex, <BR>which he called "Urning"--or "Uranian"--after the famous myth in Plato's <BR>Symposium in which Pausanias calls love between men "the beautiful love, the <BR>Heavenly love, the love belonging to the Heavenly Muse Urania." <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR></FONT><FONT COLOR="#0f0f0f" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"> <BR> <BR> <BR></BLOCKQUOTE> <BR></FONT></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial Narrow" LANG="0"><B> <BR>Well, this is certainly in consonance with the Greek idea that love between <BR>men was more exalted than love between men and women. But i didn't know they <BR>linked it to Urania. So I stand corrected. <BR> <BR>pat</B></FONT></HTML> --part1_2f.119d3d20.27cf22be_boundary--