AHC: Legal Gay Marriage In Ancient Rome

Oh, I think it was earlier than that. There's an anecdote about one of Marius' soldiers who killed a superior officer who was making a pass at him; even though such an action would usually merit death, Marius let him off, on the grounds that the killer had been acting properly in protecting his honour.

Oh, but this was standard. Roman sexual moral. If the soldier would have raped his slave, nothing bad would have happened.
 
I don't have the anthropological data on hand, but in societies that where same-sex marriage existed, such as the Dakota people, it usually involved a man having multiple wives, and at least one of the wives is a biologically male person living as a female. Such wives were regarded as valuable because they can do household chores that involve strength. It was deemed necessary to have a biologically female wife, though.

For female marriage, I've heard about one society in Africa where for some reason involving inheritance, if an older woman has no offspring, she can live as a man and take a younger female wife, who will have sex with another man. The children of this younger woman were legally the children of the older children.

In summary, all the ancient same-sex marriages were same-sex, opposite-gender, involving a transgender person. If the idea of transgenderedness gets accepted by Romans, then same-sex marriage is a possibility.
 
I don't have the anthropological data on hand, but in societies that where same-sex marriage existed, such as the Dakota people, it usually involved a man having multiple wives, and at least one of the wives is a biologically male person living as a female. Such wives were regarded as valuable because they can do household chores that involve strength. It was deemed necessary to have a biologically female wife, though.

For female marriage, I've heard about one society in Africa where for some reason involving inheritance, if an older woman has no offspring, she can live as a man and take a younger female wife, who will have sex with another man. The children of this younger woman were legally the children of the older children.

In summary, all the ancient same-sex marriages were same-sex, opposite-gender, involving a transgender person. If the idea of transgenderedness gets accepted by Romans, then same-sex marriage is a possibility.

So the T in LGBT is MUCH older than I thought (ie. older than sex-change surgery or those sex-change booths in the ASB section)?
 
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