Quote:Hah! How did I not answer your question? You asked if a bunch of people were born gay then or if people adapted to their culture/environment. I replied that I didn't think there was such a moral hang up with being gay then as the real stigma on homosexuality came with the two major religions which flourished right as the Empire was drawing to a close. That was an objective response. I thought it was on point. The Romans nicked their culture from the Greeks. Have you read what Plato, Herodotus, Sappho or Xenophon said about homosexuality? I wouldn't call it a damning account by any stretch. Read about Achilles and Patroclus. Does that sound at all like the repressed, westernized (influenced by religion) account of homosexuality being taboo? You'll have to explain how my response was a lack of a real answer.

I asked if you thought more gay men were born around that time or if men adapted to their surroundings ,which is it?


Ah yes I see you've dived deep into Google. Plato is an awful example by the way based on my knowledge of him. So we agree homosexuality was common place around that time. So was it a case of more people being born gay or was it a case that it was just freely accepted?


I don't think anybody chooses homosexuality but I do think it is a complex mixture of biological,environmental and psychosocial factors. To say that a person is born gay and that's all there is to it ,is a simplistic view.

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