re: #191 Sergey Romanov

Apparently they just did not see a symmetrical phenomenon in female homosexuality. Male homosexuality was perceived as a right-wing, bourgeois manifestation, and there was such a perception. There is some data about gay circles among Russian mid-to-high strata (e.g. a famous Tsarist police report giving lots of names of “known” homosexuals), despite the Church influence, so it was probably seen as some sort of a sign of decay. I’m not even sure that the people who wrote the law even conceptualized the female homosexuality as a separate phenomenon.

You are probably right. Women were not really seen, legally anyway, as people.