RE: Homophobia. A misleading label
October 27, 2010 at 5:32 pm
(This post was last modified: October 27, 2010 at 5:47 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(October 27, 2010 at 4:47 pm)Cerrone Wrote: I can't really think of many Roman or Greek leaders or figures who werent bisexual, but it was very common up until the damn christians spoiled everyones fun by forcing people to committ to pairing off with each other in the long term.
That is probably true. In many ancient societies, like those of the Romans, Greeks, Japanese, etc, the relationship between a husband and wife is suppose to be purely an arranged platonic partnership designed to help keep house, give birth and tie the interests of respective families together. Hetrosexual orientation and chummy intergender romantics is not needed long as the partners get along and produce children. In fact excessive devotion by men to women was thought to soften men, make women uppity, and generally erode martial virtues of the society. Homosexuality amongst men is thought to preserve purity of martial virtue in much the same way incent is thought to maintain the purity of the royal blood. Homosexuality amongst women is thought to keep women distracted and not nag the men too much.