A short history of the vestiges of late Roman society on western views on homosexuality...X_X
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 of whom practiced homosexuality or 'divine prostitution'. Also, the 'Lex Julia De Adulteris' -actually enforced to try to increase the male birth rate of Rome to populate the Roman army - banned adultery and celibacy, including homosexuality in the Justinian period.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lex_Iul...818_-_17_BC.29
Another thing to note about early homosexuality - both in Greece and in Japan - was that it was commonly accepted between males, but often not between females - a good example of this is Ihara Saikaku's 'Life of an Amorous Woman', which details both kinds of relationships in entirely different lights. This is sometimes a little confusing to a modern western view of traditional morality - but my theory is that it is a vestige of societal misogyny - a woman should not have the right to choose a woman over a man - or somesuch and thingy....
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lex_Iul...818_-_17_BC.29
Another thing to note about early homosexuality - both in Greece and in Japan - was that it was commonly accepted between males, but often not between females - a good example of this is Ihara Saikaku's 'Life of an Amorous Woman', which details both kinds of relationships in entirely different lights. This is sometimes a little confusing to a modern western view of traditional morality - but my theory is that it is a vestige of societal misogyny - a woman should not have the right to choose a woman over a man - or somesuch and thingy....
Hiya people!