i dont know what you think about wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabuki#...men.27s_kabuki
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EDIT: i still don't know what you think about wiki
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wiki: shudo article
With the rise in power and influence of the merchant class, aspects of the practice of shudo were adopted by the middle classes, and homoerotic expression in Japan began to be more closely associated with travelling kabuki actors known as tobiko, "fly boys," who moonlighted as prostitutes.
In the Edo period (1600-1868) kabuki actors (known as onnagata when playing female roles) often worked as prostitutes off-stage. Kagema were male prostitutes who worked at specialist brothels called "kagemajaya" (陰間茶屋: kagema tea houses). Both kagema and kabuki actors were much sought after by the sophisticates of the day, who often practiced danshoku/nanshoku, or male love.
Beginning with the Meiji restoration and the rise of Western influence, Christian values began to influence the culture, leading to a rapid decline of sanctioned homoerotic practices in the late 1800s.
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