Spurred by Conservatives' Outcry, Haworth Press Cancels Book on Homosexuality in Antiquity

PAGE SPURNERS: Haworth Press announced late last month that it would cancel the publication of an edited volume on homosexuality in classical antiquity. Conservative activists had complained that one of the chapters -- an essay by Bruce L. Rind, an adjunct instructor in psychology at Temple University -- amounted to a defense of present-day sexual relationships between men and adolescent boys.

The book, Same-Sex Desire and Love in Greco-Roman Antiquity and in the Classical

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