Sin and Sodomy in the Dutch East Indies

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Sin and Sodomy in the Dutch East Indies | History Today

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Joost Schouten was one of the ablest servants of the 17th-century Dutch East India Company, but he came a serious cropper when his fellow countrymen discovered his ‘crimes against nature’, as Peter Murrell explains.