Originally Posted by
EriksShadow
Nooo.. you're totaly missing my point. I was laughing at THIS military because there HAVE been pleanty of military corps in the past where homosexuality ran rampent within the members... and often times even encouraged. The soilders of the Edo period of Japan for example, Greeks, Romans.. etc..
lol.. and homosexuality being "new" Come on Jesse.. you're smarter then that.
no i know your point. but most of the "rampent" homosexuality wasnt what it is today. the examples you cited (greek, roman) ... these werent cases of homosexuality in the respect they are today. these were married men in most cases, men who had wifes and children and families wherever they were from, but in the military they sastified their sexual lusts with men. this was prior to the injection of christianic beliefs into social doctrine. at that time homosexuality wasnt the same meaning as it is today ... they didnt see it as a bad thing... once christian beliefs were injected into most modern society and the teachers of christian faith began preaching that homosexuality was wrong did it only take on the negative connotations
the mindset of homosexuality and what they were doing then is totally different than the mindset most people take today on homosexuality. you have to remember these were even times where in many cases women didnt even question their husbands for sleeping with whatever woman they wanted to.
and i didnt mean homosexuality was "new" rather the overly openness and societies attempts to accept people who have different sexual orientations is still relatively new. ya know what i mean?