English Dictionary

Sexuality is frequently associated with foreign places in the dominant discourse, especially when the phenomenon being considered assumes an automatically negative connotation. The Romans held the Greeks responsible for homosexuality, while the latter attributed it to the Persians and the peoples of the Near East; in the Middle Ages, westerners blamed the Muslims... Depending on the period and the context, love between men would also be denounced as the Indochinese vice or the Arab vice (by the colonizers)... and the English vice (by the French) or the French vice (by the English)... when everyone did not agree that it was the German vice.