I try to judge people by the content of their character not by what they do in bed.
The fact is that adult male homosexuality has been there from the start (whenever that was.) I believe it started back in the era with the Roman soldiers. Roman men and women liked big masculine men for sex. There is a myth that Romans looked down on a man for such behavior, but this was just an attitude, not a reality. Roman men would try anything in bed. Even the Emperor, would go into the barracks, where soldiers lived naked, and partake of the hairy muscularity as he saw fit. Military officers using their men for sex was common also in Arabia, if you read the true Lawrence of Arabia story and not the movie version.
Long before the Romans, homosexuality existed in ancient Persia... King Darius had a loveboy, who became Alexander the Great's lover when he defeated the Persian army.
Among many Middle Eastern Muslim cultures, homosexual practices were widespread and public. Persian poets, such as Sa’di (d. 1291), Hafez (d. 1389), and Jami (d. 1492), wrote poems replete with homoerotic allusions. The two most commonly documented forms were commercial sex with transgender males or males enacting transgender roles exemplified by the köçeks and the bacchás, and Sufi spiritual practices in which the practitioner crossed over from the idealized chaste form of the practice to one in which the desire is consummated.
In Persia homosexuality and homoerotic expressions were tolerated in numerous public places, from monasteries and seminaries to taverns, military camps, bathhouses, and coffee houses. In the early Safavid era (1501–1723), male houses of prostitution (amrad khane) were legally recognized and paid taxes.
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