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You know those "300" Spartans that fought at Thermopylae - you know, the ones in that movie that's coming out soon...
They were 150 gay couples.
Just something to think about.
You beat me to it!
I'm not saying this has ANYTHING to do with the debate going on in this particular thread. It's just a historical oddity to hold up for a little side... interest?
For the Ancient Greeks an overwhelming majority were bisexual, with soldiers in particular having a fellow soldier as their main Significant Other.
Sure you had a wife and kids back home, and you took sex slaves from amongst the women of the enemies you defeated.... but no one was as important to you as the men that you fought beside. They saved your life, you saved theirs: no other love could compare. They expressed that love sexually, and often settled down to a relationship with just one fellow soldier.
Your tent-mate, your best love, the one you fought back to back with in most battles, the one who you held as he choked to death on his own blood, and that you avenged again and again in any subsequesnt battle, or the one who held you as you died.
Yeah women were nice and soft and smelled good, but they were just hardly anything compared to a soldier.
