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Re:A gay island community created by Italy's Fascists by maxbaroi on Thursday June 13, 2013 @06:02PM (#5876870)
Everyone who studies that sort of thing has told me that viewing ancient roman sexuality through a homosexual vs heterosexual lens is not quite right. You need to look at it more through who's the "passive" vs "active" participant.

That it was socially acceptable to be a man and penetrate someone else regardless of their sex, while it was frowned upon to be a grown man and be penetrated.

Similarly, to receive oral from someone else was fine, but it was frowned upon for a man to perform oral on a woman.

Re:A gay island community created by Italy's Fascists by drivebyacct2 on Thursday June 13, 2013 @09:04PM (#5877748)
Also my understanding was that it often was a matter of pederasty rather than "love" like when people talk about "marriage equality" nowadays or what not.