From: jclarkeusenet@cox.net   
      
   In article <0da8a8f3-6df0-4bba-b578-ab068ec0cbd2@googlegroups.com>,   
   tsbrueni@dcn.davis.ca.us says...   
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   > On Friday, September 27, 2013 5:24:00 AM UTC-7, J. Clarke wrote:   
   > > In article <880aefa1-6335-4ba5-8c1a-ce7c963776aa@googlegroups.com>,   
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   > > qwrtz123@gmail.com says...   
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   > > > > Does this female couple run into opposition from opponents of same sex   
   relationships?  In a world dysfunctional enough to have pirates and slaves, I   
   would expect there to be plenty of bigots around!   
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   > > > Um, given that some of the people don't even look human any more, the   
   answer is no.   
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   > > A world with pirates and the like has weak government, not strong   
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   > > "morality".  The Greeks had slaves and dealt with pirates, but they   
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   > > didn't have much problem with buggering the boy slaves.  And nobody much   
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   > > cared what the women did with each other--girls don't get other girls   
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   > > pregnant.   
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   > Did the Greeks have actual same sex marriages?   
      
   I can't say with certainty that the Greeks had them in a formal way, but   
   the Romans outlawed gay marriage in 342 AD, suggesting that it existed   
   before that date.  Nero allegedly married two men,  however Nero was   
   both emperor and nuts so I'm not sure whether his actions can be taken   
   as representative.   
      
   However whether formal marriage was or was not commonly practiced isn't   
   the same as whether such relationships were accepted.  Ancient attitudes   
   toward marriage were, I am given to understand, quite different from our   
   own.   
      
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