Sex between Samurai

Prejudiced gay sex in Japan

GAYLES.TV.- La homosexuality as an extended practice in Japan it originated in Buddhist and Taoist monasteries. Relations between men and sex free of prejudice were practiced from the Middle Ages until the XNUMXth century in the Japanese country. Male homosexual love was considered more sublime than heterosexual love. They were relationships that were well regarded and had their own codes. In these environments the desire for a woman was seen as something forbidden by celibacy, but not the desire for another man.

At that time the pornographic books caused a rage with explicit scenes of all kinds of sexual relations. They highlighted artists like Suzuki Harunobu, Utamaro y Miyagawa Isshô, which were very popular in the XNUMXth century in Japan. This artistic expression known as Shunga It surprised the western world whose morality was much stricter then.

Many illustrations Shunga show aa lovers dressed in style Samurai. And it is that the wardrobe betrayed the origin of the protagonists. If they were nobles, warriors, servants ... Many Samurai They adopted this type of relationship in which generally a young boy entered a monastery as an apprentice and began a relationship with his teacher. The young man necessarily had to be passive while the older man was the active one. In the couple, the oldest was known as the nenja (念者) and the young man was known as wakashū. Relations between the two men had to be presided over by the honor and fidelity and always with mutual consent. The older man teaching the young man the military techniques and the Japanese honor code.

The adoption of Western values and a change in the vision of morality, led to that during the nineteenth century this type of practices were more censored to the point of becoming banned.