Why is homosexuality in there with stuff like necrophilia and sex crimes?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Before the 1990's, homosexuality was seen as a mental illness (I'm pretty sure), and still is seen that way to some people. It's just something dealing with sexuality that was seen as incredibly rare or non-existent until very recent times, but what my post was asking was whether or not it existed long ago, but was never acknowledged. I could've listed asexuality with it, too.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Of course homosexuals existed, they were just in hiding from people who lumped them with sex criminals and creeps

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Haha funny and probably true

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Yes homosexuallity was very common in many cultures, then it became "wrong" and people hid their sexuallity away until now with cultures being more tolerent.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I mean the people who actually were homosexual, whether they were hiding or not. I bet you're right though, and I hope you are. @1148868 (Grr): I know it was common in SOME cultures, as in few. Homosexuality has been seen as "wrong" in most cultures for centuries, if not millenia. It's pretty sad, but it's part of why I posted this.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

In ancient Rome, homosexuality was very common. To many people back then, sex wasn't an act of love, it was pure pleasure. Men would get together just because it felt good.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Include Ancient Greece in that too. It was even more prolific in Greece than Rome (apparently). Alexander the Great was apparently one of the biggest homosexuals (or at least, bisexuals) of all time. Hooray for the ancient world!

by Anonymous 13 years ago

When reading the original papers talking about that stuff, it seems more like they weren't gay/bi but more that they were straight and were around men a lot more often so they got their pleasure from them. Obviously some were gay, but it wasn't about actually liking dudes, it was about liking orgasms.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

That's what I was trying to say. Sex wasn't some sacred act, it was just fun. It didn't matter who you were screwing as long as you were gettin' some.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I'd say the latter.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

The first one.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Like many people have already said, it has existed for a long time and so have fetishes...but yeah it is kinda sad that homosexuals have had to hide and that rape and things of that nature still happen even though we are supposed to be a civilized people

by Anonymous 13 years ago

The second one. Actually the first one too but only because the population has gone up dramatically.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

This. And the first one has to do with the second - thanks to the Internet, we're more aware of strange sex acts (not talking about homosexuality, but I learnt about furries and necrophilia and weird fetishes from Encyclopaedia Dramatica and 4chan), and I guess on some occasions, once you know that something exists (IE, you can get furry diaper porn), you're most likely to try and seek it out.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

True. But I wonder if having better forms of entertainment such as the internet makes people less likely to try to amuse themselves with graveyard shenanigans.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Hmmm That's an similar argument I heard a few months ago - there are websites online about how to build bombs, explosives, etc., and if these should be censored. However, there are books currently in most public libraries that contain similar information, but no one cares about them, because the information isn't immediate - that is, someone on the Internet could find in in seconds, so it should be censored, but finding it in real life would take a trip to the library, and look up the information (approx 20 minutes), yet no one thinks the books should be taken out of the library. Odd, eh?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Silly people who believe in censorship never make any sense. If someone really wants to build a bomb they'd find a way censorship or no censorship. I've always wanted to go up to a librarian and ask where she keeps the books about how to build a bomb.

by Anonymous 13 years ago