Liliequist J
Department of History, Umeå University, Sweden.
J Homosex. 1998;35(3-4):15-52. doi: 10.1300/J082v35n03_02.
In Sweden, homosexual acts between men were mentioned in secular law for the first time in 1608. Despite the explicit criminalization, very few trials are known from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and the new National Law Code of 1734 contained no sanction at all. The central issue of this essay is how the insignificant number of court cases and the seemingly very limited judicial interest in the issue of sodomy in Early Modern Sweden should be interpreted. The silence of the new law is explained by a shift in the official policy from deterrence to a policy of silence, but the low number of court cases was foremost dependent on a lacking actualization and problematization of homosexual acts in the Swedish popular discourse on sexuality, gender, and prestige. Finally, it is argued that this undeveloped popular discourse probably also corresponded to a meagre and rather restricted sexual practice.
1608年，瑞典世俗法律首次提及男性之间的同性恋行为。尽管已明确将其定为犯罪，但17世纪和18世纪已知的审判极少，1734年的新《国家法典》根本没有相关制裁规定。本文的核心问题是，如何解读近代早期瑞典鸡奸问题上数量极少的法庭案件以及看似非常有限的司法关注。新法律对此保持沉默可解释为官方政策从威慑转向沉默政策，但法庭案件数量少主要是因为瑞典关于性、性别和声誉的大众话语中，同性恋行为缺乏实际呈现和问题化处理。最后，有人认为这种未充分发展的大众话语可能也对应着有限且颇为受限的性行为。
