A short history of the vestiges of late Roman society on western views on homosexuality...X_X

[ningen_shinri]

The history of Rome explains a lot of the modern western view on male homosexuality. Part of it was due to a political backlash against the non-christian emperors as a matter of resentment and of political gain. Roman historical records of the Christian era often read like a fantastic kind of smear campaign against the last 'pagan' emperors - many

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[anpheus]

I would concur that it is a remnant of the gender bias from earlier times. Throughout history it has always been considered most acceptable for the male to be dominant, the female submissive. In the case of two males, it was a matter of power, and in the case of courting a woman, it was always a matter of pleasing the father. In these cases, and in early times, I believe the women, at least in 'respected' families, were never allowed to determine with whom they associated. And likewise, with whom they would take to bed