ABSTRACT
Early modern medicine and natural philosophy afford very few discussions of male same-sexual relations as extensive as Guastavini’s in his commentary on the first ten books of the pseudo-Aristotelian Problemata. Book 4 focuses on sexual issues, and its twenty-sixth question or “problem” considers why some males enjoy receptive anal coitus; thus Guastavini was drawn into providing an explication such as he thought his contemporary natural philosophical readership would find credible and edifying. An annotated translation of this section of Guastavini’s commentary is provided below.
