Homosexual Discussion ForumSlavery and HomosexualityExactly Which means that just as we have examined slavery in our culture and rejected it, then the bans against homosexuality are also eligible for reconsideration. Not entirely true to my knowledge, I'm afraid. Especially in the NT's Roman backdrop where male-male prostitution was an acceptable lifestyle. At least one source offhand (Graham-McMurray's A History of Morals) tells us that it was a common practice for a man to have a wife and a young male on the side (though certainly not the norm). And in Athens during biblical times, there is textual evidence that male prostitution was such a flowing business (with slave-boys servicing clients of both sexes) that it angered the female prostitutes and they complained about the competition! (see also Polybius's The Histories and Mollencott's Is the Homosexual my Neighbor?) Therefore, male-male prostitution was a real and present reality to Paul, and his writings would certainly address them as a violation along the same lines as opposite-sex prostitution. |
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