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Captain Pedantic · 06-20-2002, 08:16 AM

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<strong>Yeah but how did that start. Who decided two guys going at it was gross? I don't find it particularly erotic, but I don't find it gross either. And why is it that guys have no problem watching 2 girls go at it? I suppose it all comes down to the fact that penises are inherently ugly as hell and guys have hairy asses.

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I think two men together can be very erotic. I find something very annoying about the idea than men are ugly, but women are attractive. I don't consider it true.

Also, the makers of the programme were probably being very mindful of their audience, and the possibility that certain individuals who own televisions might feel compelled to screech insults at anyone who does something vaguely shocking.

There were probably people who would have liked to have made a more "confrontational" show, but were stopped by these concerns.

philechat · 06-20-2002, 01:21 PM

One hypothesis about the hatred of gays in the Bible: The writers of OT probably had contact with the gay-tolerent Greek culture, which the priest class in the OT does not want the people to identify with. Greek culture was too attractive at that time to many adherents that they abandoned their original faith...and thus the hatred of all things Greek?

seebs · 06-20-2002, 01:43 PM

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<strong>One hypothesis about the hatred of gays in the Bible: The writers of OT probably had contact with the gay-tolerent Greek culture, which the priest class in the OT does not want the people to identify with. Greek culture was too attractive at that time to many adherents that they abandoned their original faith...and thus the hatred of all things Greek?</strong>

More likely the Canaanites, and other pagan cults of the time, some of which had male temple prostitutes.

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philechat Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Mind of the Other Posts: 886	One hypothesis about the hatred of gays in the Bible: The writers of OT probably had contact with the gay-tolerent Greek culture, which the priest class in the OT does not want the people to identify with. Greek culture was too attractive at that time to many adherents that they abandoned their original faith...and thus the hatred of all things Greek?

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