Editing Richard Francis Burton (section)

==Sotadic Zone==
[[Image:Sotadic Zone.PNG|thumb|330px|The "Sotadic Zone" of Burton encompassed the [[Mediterranean Sea|Mediterranean]] coastlines of Southern Europe and North Africa, the entire region of the [[Levant]], larger areas of the Middle East and Asia, and all of the Americas.]]

Burton theorized about the existence of a Sotadic Zone in the closing essay of his English translation of ''[[The Arabian Nights]]'' (1885–1886).<ref name="Reyes 2012">{{cite book |last=Reyes |first=Raquel A. G. |editor1-last=Reyes |editor1-first=Raquel A. G. |editor2-last=Clarence-Smith |editor2-first=William G. |year=2012 |title=Sexual Diversity in Asia, c. 600–1950 |chapter=Introduction |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uP57zh13BqQC&pg=PA1 |location=[[Abingdon-on-Thames|Abingdon, Oxfordshire]] |publisher=[[Routledge]] |series=Routledge contemporary Asia series |volume=37 |pages=1–3 |isbn=978-0-415-60059-0}}</ref><ref name="Markwell 2008">{{cite journal|last=Markwell|first=Kevin|year=2008|title=The Lure of the "Sotadic Zone"|url=https://glreview.org/article/article-678/|journal=[[The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide]]|volume=15|issue=2}} Excerpted and reprinted with permission from {{cite book|last1=Waitt|first1=Gordon|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9v84NxERpjQC|title=Gay Tourism: Culture and Context|last2=Markwell|first2=Kevin|publisher=[[Haworth Press]]|year=2006|isbn=978-0-7890-1602-7|location=New York City}}</ref> He asserted that there exists a geographic-climatic zone in which [[sodomy]] and [[pederasty]] (sexual intimacy between older men and young pubescent/adolescent boys) are [[Endemic (epidemiology)|endemic]],<ref name="Reyes 2012"/><ref name="Markwell 2008"/> prevalent,<ref name="Reyes 2012"/><ref name="Markwell 2008"/> and celebrated among the indigenous inhabitants and within their cultures.<ref name="Markwell 2008"/> The name derives from [[Sotades]],<ref name="Markwell 2008"/> a [[3rd century BC|3rd-century BC]] [[Ancient Greece|Ancient Greek]] [[Ancient Greek literature|poet]] who was the chief representative of a group of Ancient Greek writers of obscene, and sometimes [[Pederasty in ancient Greece|pederastic]], [[Ancient Greek comedy|satirical poetry]]; these homoerotic verses are preserved in the ''[[Greek Anthology]]'', a collection of poems spanning the [[Classical Greece|Classical]] and [[Byzantine Greece|Byzantine]] periods of [[Greek literature]].

Burton first advanced his Sotadic Zone concept in the "Terminal Essay",<ref>(§1., D)</ref> contained in Volume 10 of his English translation of ''[[The Arabian Nights]]'', which he called ''[[The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night]]'', published in England in 1886.<ref name="Reyes 2012"/><ref>{{cite book|title=The Book of the Thousand Nights and A Night|year=1886|publisher=Burton Society (Private printing)|location=s.l.|title-link=The Book of the Thousand Nights and A Night}}</ref>