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BR>How did
love and sex between men start out as a noble ideal, practiced by the majority of the population and approved for centuries by both religion and law, and turn out to be one of the most vicious and sustained persecutions in recorded history?
How did sex between men start out as an admired act of masculinity and end up as a shameful badge of effeminacy?
How did
homosexual love and sex, which were seen as important to the development of virtue, nobility and the foundation of a strong society, become an enemy of the state?
It is true that Greece deified homosexuals!
Gay sex was revered as a way of building, not destroying, family values, something that would
shock homophobes of
today.
AND, homosexual sex was reviled if the participants were effeminate, something that would shock the gay activists of today!
Greek society was founded in part by a belief in the nobility of homosexual love. It wasn''t gay sex that repulsed Greeks; it was effeminate men, who they believed subverted masculinity
The Romans too celebrated love and sex between men, The biggest difference between Roman and Greek perceptions of same-sex desire is that the Romans didn''t believe sexual relations between men was a path toward political, spiritual and ethical ideals.
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