WI: Homosexuality the norm

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One way would be that there not be Christianity or it not spread very much. With that way people might see homosexuality pretty normal thing. So it is hard to say what would happen then.
I'm starting to get annoyed with this myth. Homosexuality was not viewed any more poorly than other sins in Christianity, and it mostly inherited its negative views of it from Judaism. During the early stages of Christian Expansion there were many different groups of Christianity that were open and accepting of Christianity, but these were wiped out in the Late Antiquity Crisis. Even so, the Catholic and Orthodox Churches simply considered it a topic you didn't openly talk about and was fine behind closed doors up until the days of Saint Augustine, where there was a shift. A shift that would be cemented by the days of Saint Aquinas. Even so, it was just considered an especially bad sin, the embodiment of lust, until the protestant reformation started happening and people started looking at their bibles (and their old testaments) for the absolute truth rather than the interpreted guided truth. Once that happened, Homosexuality got knocked further down. Later, when rationalism took over, homosexuality was for the first time looked on as an abnormal mental disability. From there it was a long ride downhill to the early and mid 20th century, until things finally started to get better.

Ironically, the Greeks were very open and accepting of homosexual practices and several islands actively supported it in youth as a form of population control. The Romans didn't really accept it half as much, and even killed a few of their own emperors for being the "submissive" actor in homosexual acts, but so long as it was not in public they didn't care. Like being a musician, riding chariots for races, and other things that were for the "lower" members of society that were unfit for high class noble society of Rome. You have inherited Judaic prejudices, but you also have inherited Roman snobbery also added to the mix for views of homosexuality. Why it was frowned upon, but somewhat accepted behind closed doors until a new age started to emerge.

Its also important to note that there was no such thing as sexual orientation, only an objective measure of sexual beauty, until near modern times.
 
Views are deeply tied to evolutionary tendencies. There is no clean break between them. Even religious people like me can see that.

Really? From evolutionary point polygamy should be norm.


that's a lot of heterosexual sex for a decidedly homosexual species. :D

Well, if family has to continue then that's what happens. In past homosexual males were pressured into marrying and producing children. They were allowed to have fun elsewhere (depending on society, obviously) but legal children were required

just think about it. for procreation you need, pre modern medicine, lots of children to have a stable society because a lot of them dont get to the age when they can have children. and then there's the fact that sex once doesnt mean you've made a child - gotta do it a lot of times. or the actual selection of mating partners = dating. or that you probably wont plant your seed if you're thinking it's a horrible and disgusting act you're doing.

if it functions you can just call it bisexuality.

Or you can do it once every few days until woman is pregnant. Then men are "off the hook for couple of months"
 
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