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Pope Gregory VII's push to make the church supreme over states entailed a moral "purification" drive by which priestly marriage, adultery, sodomy, etc. were repressed. Repression, in turn, bred fiercer moralism in the form of reaction formulation on the part of individual priests who had had to repress their forbidden urges - specifically, for the purposes of this book - homosexual ones.
— Oct 22, 2013 06:07AM
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David
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"Social constructionists have been on solid ground in stressing the historical variability of conceptions of homosexuality, even if they have been mistaken about when these changes occurred."
— Mar 25, 2014 05:44AM
David
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Anglophone attitudes to homosexuality controlled by economic development: early capitalism dictating emotional/sexual inhibition for the purpose of acquiring capital, late 20th century capitalism emphasizing the liberation attendant on the promotion of consumption.
— Mar 22, 2014 03:07AM
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"The French Penal Code of 1791 and the Napoleonic Code both took freedom of contract to its logical conclusion by decriminalizing homosexual relations between consenting adults."
— Mar 11, 2014 05:54AM
David
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"Sodomy" as a metonym for everything the lower classes resented the leisured classes for, "evoking connotations that went far beyond sexuality."
— Oct 25, 2013 08:38PM
David
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"Church leaders of the 2nd thru the 4th centuries gave sex much greater attention and w few exceptions rejected it far more vehemently and completely than did the authors of the New Testament."
— Aug 25, 2013 06:10AM
