The political stakes are high in this research, and they reach far beyond the issue of male homosexuality.
Finally, men who had never married were found at increased risk since the 1940s, indicating a potential association with male homosexuality.
Some later scholars have focused on the book's treatment of male homosexuality.
Male homosexuality had been illegal under 175 regardless of age since 1872.
The novel was published in 1956 and is the second of her works to feature male homosexuality as a major theme.
Most acts of male homosexuality on the island ceased to be contrary to the law in 1992.
From the second half of the 13th century, death was the punishment for male homosexuality in most of Europe.
There is some evidence that people can detect male homosexuality by looking at facial characteristics.
Later critics have addressed the book's exploration and presentation of male homosexuality.