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Originally Posted by Arrianna  Japan and Greece didn't embrace homosexuality they embraced bisexuality. You can have as many lovers as you want as long as you also get married, have children, and provide for them. |
Homosexuality does not have to be exclusive to be homosexuality. Encounters between members of the same gender are still homosexual encounters and reguardless of whether a family unit exists beyond the homosexual lifestyle embraced: I'm fairly certain that doesn't make the act of sticking your willy in another boy's butt any less "Gay" (or pleasing to the cranky Abrahamic God who says that's sinful and would then turn around and smite your society on account of it...which is the argument usually being made when someone decides to dredge this topic up on television or in church).
Obviously exclusive homosexuality isn't going to create a society
at all. Exclusive homosexuals don't reproduce. That makes it a little tough to "carry on the legacy"
In Japan, relationships between men were romantic, desireable and exciting while women were for making heirs to then inherit your land, business or to place on thrones to pretend to be kings while you manipulated them from behind the scenes and screwed pretty female-role actors and geisha. Incidentally, all this went on in a time in which suicide, drinking, prostitution, dirty pictures, drinking and killing Christians was rather en vogue.
Japan's still around... and unless you count the Atomic bomb "divine", they remain largely un-smited (and still incredibly dependant on dirty pictures, suicide and alcohol)