During war and the separation from women that war involves, the homosexual instinct tends to develop; it flourished, for instance, among the Carthaginians and among the Normans, as well as among the warlike Dorians, Scythians, Tartars, and Celts,[19] and, when there has been an absence of any strong moral feeling against it, the instinct has been cultivated and, idealized as a military virtue, partly because it counteracts the longing for the softening feminine influences of the home and partly because it seems to have an inspiring influence in promoting heroism and heightening _esprit de corps_.

In the lament of David over Jonathan we have a picture of intimate friendship--"passing the love of women"-- between comrades in arms among a barbarous, warlike race.

There is nothing to show that such a relationship was sexual, but among warriors in New Caledonia friendships that were undoubtedly homosexual were recognized and regulated; the fraternity of arms, according to Foley,[20] complicated with pederasty, was more sacred than uterine fraternity.

We have, moreover, a recent example of the same relationships recognized in a modern European race--the Albanians.
Hahn, in the course of his _Albanische Studien_ (1854, p.

166), says that the young men between 16 and 24 lore boys from about 12 to 17.