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Gary — (archived)

SDAI-Tech said:

"What fatally weakened Athens was their fixation with homosexuality as being some sort of divine true relationship. Their birthrate plummeted and eventually the population simply couldn't defend itself against outside invaders. "

I do not approve of homosexuality and put it in the same bucket with epilepsy and schizophrenia (it should not be criminalized or politicized but simply regarded as a mental disorder).

Ancient homosexuality was a different thing altogether. Remember there was no effective form of contraception back then. The main way of controlling fertility was to leave unwanted infants (often daughters) exposed in the wilderness to be devoured by animals or collected by slave traders. This is an aspect of the ancient world that I find utterly repellant and incomprehensible (My daughter is 2 years old and the light of my life). To understand ancient sexual practices in the correct context, one must remember this horrible business of murdering young children.

Gary

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