The crime [homosexuality] was subject to punishment by both secular and ecclesiastical courts-just as now it is subject to punishment by both penal and psychiatric sanctions. (Thomas Szasz)

The crime [homosexuality] was subject to punishment by both secular and ecclesiastical courts-just as now it is subject to punishment by both penal and psychiatric sanctions.

Thomas Szasz

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