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quid_facis_cacasne t1_j241wuc wrote

Reply to comment by tarryngray in What’s the difference between an American girl and an Iranian girl? by vartha

I have a Vulgate from the 18th century which says, Lev. 18:22, "Cum masculo non commiscearis coitu femineo quia abominatio est". This means, "May you not engage in womanly sex with a male, because it is an abomination." No reference of stoning, no reference of a man with his own child.

It doesn't actually seem to be an injunction against homosexuality per se in the Latin, rather against being the passive partner, which was the philosophy of homosexuality for the Greeks as well.

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dje1964 t1_j24g2qr wrote

Wow. I am impressed by all the biblical and legal scholars here in r/jokes

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Fit_Cherry7133 t1_j25589w wrote

Wait, so who were the gay dude's banging then??

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quid_facis_cacasne t1_j2565j0 wrote

I know that's the really weird contradiction about it. The way the Greeks worked around it was to encourage the passive partner to be an adolescent, because it was thought that it would be even more dishonourable for an adult man to be in that position. This is in Foucault's History of Sexuality.

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