ABSTRACT
The dietary laws may in a particular case forbid to the Jews a food that is distinctively characteristic of their neighbors' diet and the sexual taboos may include a sexual practice routinely or ritually practiced by a neighboring people. Many of Gilbert's explanations of the extreme severity with which the British navy treated homosexuality depend on the naval officers perceiving homosexuals as a threat to the rigid external and internal social boundaries that characterized their organization. The severity with which the British navy treated homosexuals reflected a cumulative response to a form of sexual behavior which threatened simultaneously the three kinds of social boundary that have been discussed. Socialist party and its members expressed contempt for the churches and hatred for the Jews. Similar conclusions may be reached from a study of the widespread practice of homosexuality in the National Socialist S.A. militia and its predecessor the Frontbann in the 1920s and early 1930s.
