The Sotadic Zone
Just like we have the bible belt, we have the "Sotadic zone", a band of countries from the Mediterranean through the Middle East, China, Japan, the South Seas and the Americas, where homosexuality flourished and where the adoration of handsome youth was a matter of everyday life. It was a theory proposed by Richard Burton who died in 1890.
Burton has especially nice word for the gay Asian China: "The Chinese, as far as we know them in the great cities, are omnivorous and omnifutuentes: they are the chosen people of debauchery, and their systematic bestiality with ducks, goats, and other animals is equalled only by their pederasty…". Funny.