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| Preface | |
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| Early Greece 776-480 BCE | |
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| A Millennium of Greek Love | |
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| Homer's Iliad | |
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| Crete, Sparta, Chalcis | |
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| Athletics and the Cult of Beauty | |
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| Sappho | |
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| Alcaeus, Ibycus, Anacreon | |
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| Theognis of Megara | |
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| Athens' Rulers | |
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| The Tyrannicides | |
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| Judea 900 BCE-600 CE | |
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| The Judgment of Leviticus | |
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| The Threat to Population | |
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| Sodom's Gold | |
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| Who Were the Kedeshim? | |
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| Philo of Alexandria | |
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| The Talmud | |
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| Classical Greece 480-323 BCE | |
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| Pindar's Odes | |
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| Greek Tragedy | |
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| Phidias | |
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| The Comedies of Aristophanes | |
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| Plato's Symposium | |
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| The Phaedrus and the Laws | |
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| Xenophon | |
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| Aristotle's Dicta | |
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| Zeno and the Stoics | |
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| Aeschines' Against Timarchus | |
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| The Sacred Band of Thebes | |
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| Philip and Alexander | |
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| Rome and Greece 323 BCE-138 CE | |
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| Sexuality and Empire | |
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| Cicero and Roman Politics | |
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| Greek Love in the Aeneid | |
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| Meleager and Callimachus | |
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| Catullus and Tibullus | |
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| Theocritus and "Corydon" | |
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| Horace | |
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| Ovid's Myths | |
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| Lesbianism | |
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| Petronius' Satyricon | |
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| Suetonius and the Emperors | |
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| Statius, Martial, Juvenal | |
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| Hadrian and Antinous | |
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| Christians and Pagans 1-565 CE | |
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| The Gospels | |
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| Intertestamental Judaism and Paul | |
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| "Moses" and the Early Church | |
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| Greek Love in Late Antiquity | |
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| Plutarch's Dialogue on Love | |
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| The Lucianic "Affairs of the Heart" | |
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| Two Romances and an Epic | |
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| Roman Law before Constantine | |
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| The Edicts of 342 and 390 | |
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| Sodom Transformed | |
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| Saint John Chrysostom | |
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| The Persecutions of Justinian | |
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| Darkness Descends 476-1049 | |
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| The Fall of Rome | |
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| Visigothic Spain | |
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| Church Councils and Penitentials | |
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| The Carolingian Panic | |
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| Love in Arab Spain | |
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| The Growth of Canon Law | |
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| The Book of Gomorrah | |
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| The Medieval World 1050-1321 | |
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| The Fortunes of Ganymede | |
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| Scandal in High Places | |
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| The Theological Assault | |
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| The Inquisition and Its Allies | |
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| The Fate of the Templars | |
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| Secular Laws: The Sowing | |
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| The Harvest Begins | |
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| Poets for the Prosecution | |
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| Dante's Admirable Sinners | |
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| Imperial China 500 BCE-1849 | |
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| A Peach, a Fish, and a Sleeve | |
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| The Han Emperors | |
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| Taoism, Confucianism, Buddhism | |
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| Poets and Lovers | |
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| From Tang to Song | |
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| Ming China: The West Reacts | |
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| Feng Menglong's Anatomy of Love | |
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| Fiction and Drama | |
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| The Qing Dynasty | |
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| The Peking Stage | |
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| Italy in the Renaissance 1321-1609 | |
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| A New Ethos and an Old | |
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| Repression in the Italian City States | |
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| Death in Venice | |
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| Florence: The Price of Love | |
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| Donatello, Botticelli, Leonardo | |
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| Michelangelo: Love, Art, and Guilt | |
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| Sodoma and Cellini | |
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| Rome and Caravaggio | |
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| Spain and the Inquisition 1497-1700 | |
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| The Spanish Inquisition | |
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| Subcultures in Valencia and Madrid | |
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| The Inquisition in Portugal | |
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| Spain and the New World | |
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| France from Calvin to Louis XIV 1517-1715 | |
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| Outings, Protestant and Catholic | |
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| Calvinism and Repression | |
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| Henry III and the "Mignons" | |
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| The Poets' Revolt | |
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| Louis XIII, "The Just" | |
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| Monsieur and Madame | |
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| Six Generals | |
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| Les Lesbiennes | |
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| Queen Christina | |
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| England from the Reformation to William III 1533-1702 | |
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| Silence and Denial | |
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| Monasteries and the Law | |
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| Elizabethan Literature | |
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| Christopher Marlowe | |
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| The Tragedy of Edward II | |
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| Shakespeare's Sonnets | |
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| James VI and I | |
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| Francis Bacon | |
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| Puritanism and the Restoration | |
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| Between Women | |
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| William III in England | |
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| Pre-Meiji Japan 800-1868 | |
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| Europe Discovers Japan | |
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| The Buddhist Priesthood | |
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| Samurai and Shoguns | |
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| No Drama and Kabuki | |
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| A Debate and an Anthology | |
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| Saikaku's Great Mirror | |
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| Tokugawa Finale | |
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| Patterns of Persecution 1700-1730 | |
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| Policing Paris | |
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| "Reforming" Britain | |
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| Souls in Exile | |
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| Witch Hunt in the Netherlands | |
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| Sapphic Lovers 1700-1793 | |
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| Law and Religion | |
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| Romance and Innuendo | |
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| A Nun and an Actress | |
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| An Ill-Fated Queen | |
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| The Enlightenment 1730-1810 | |
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| Montesquieu and Beccaria | |
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| Frederick the Great | |
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| The Vagaries of Voltaire | |
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| Diderot and Sade | |
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| Toward Reform | |
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| Bentham vs. Blackstone | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Illustration Credits | |
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| Index | |