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thetammyjo -> RE: Sexuality, real or imagined? (11/29/2005 9:18:13 AM)
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ORIGINAL: happypervert
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The root of this sexually repressed society
Oh, so you are saying that this is the only society in the history of the world that acts this way. Try expanding your thinking in both time and geography.
Sorry, but conventional sexual stereotypes seem more or less universal. I can think of just two examples where society was indifferent -- I've read that in modern day Brazilian mining camps that men will fuck other men for recreation until they get home to fuck gals again, and it was the same in ancient Greece (for example, Alexander the Great's best buddy was a friend with benefits) . Perhaps there are other examples that I haven't heard of, but if the norms of society (and religion) throughout history have been established by the norms of behavior and there are just a handful of exceptions to that rule, then it looks to me like your argument really has no legs to stand on. Believe what you want, though.
Oh, my goodness.
Most societies I've studied historically have had same sex relationships.
Sometimes they are accepted, sometimes not.
Sometimes they are power based, sometimes not.
Sometimes they have religious connotations, sometimes not.
Sometimes male-male is more accepted, sometimes female-female is.
I'm just thinking this "History of Erotic Literature" course I'm almost done teaching this semester. From the ancient world to the modern, from Europe, to Africa or Asia or the Americas and Australia we have read literature, studied laws, looked at religions, and cultural attitudes and every culture has had homosexuality.
The stereotypes of sexual orientation also varied greatly even if gender roles seemed similar.
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