tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7881811987987045711.post3653096152948567302..comments2024-03-17T11:43:58.606+00:00Comments on Once I Was A Clever Boy: Assassination in PerthOnce I Was A Clever Boyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01367322665145704342noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7881811987987045711.post-61420718606243257232012-02-22T10:00:00.414+00:002012-02-22T10:00:00.414+00:00No evidence for that - he had quite a large family...No evidence for that - he had quite a large family (if that is an indicator). King James VI and I, who also had a sizeable family and seems to have been happily married to Queen Anne of Denmark, may well have had same-sex inclinations. In any case the notion of the exclusively "homosexual" appears to be a late nineteenth century construct - in previous centuries certainly there were people with sane-sex attracyion and practice, but a considerable number of people may well have, shall we say, experimented - the modern self- definition appears less precise. The mral teaching of the Church and society was, of course, consistent in its attitude to pre- or extra-marital physical relations.Once I Was A Clever Boyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01367322665145704342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7881811987987045711.post-12996125389450241582012-02-22T04:42:47.937+00:002012-02-22T04:42:47.937+00:00Wasn't King James I a homosexual?Wasn't King James I a homosexual?Scott Quinnnoreply@blogger.com