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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 703704" data-attributes="member: 4937"><p>What Nifft describes is by far the more common Indo-European cultural phenomenom, and is a good example of divorsing sexual practice from a modern dicotomy that some other posters seem trapped in. Although, Nifft only touches on some of the double standards and social stigmas that exist even in societies that function like that. </p><p></p><p>KB: It seems entirely unlikely given what we know about humans that most religion and cultures are not going to impose sexual taboos. Even if those taboos might seem alien to you, they are still taboos bearing the force of law in many cases and can still get you killed or ostracized for dishonoring some god, goddess, to whom that taboo is (or is supposedly) in honor of. Consider all the various Taboos of the Hindu religious caste system, despite of, or maybe because of its multiplicity of gods (Have you ever actually read the real Kama Sutra?). Or consider the Roman example. In ancient Rome being a homosexual was considered distasteful in the extreme and the profanity of the day very much resembled modern derogatory comments (read the poetry of Cutullus for instance), but homosexuality was defined not in terms of which sex you favored but whether or not you were the penetrated partner. A similar situation exists in several other cultures both ancient and modern. And I'm sure we could get into even more alien human social mores, but I would like to keep this PG and a history of human sexual behavior just can't.</p><p></p><p>Ciaran: Get some sleep. You are going to be alot more fun to debate with when you start making sense. (I'm headed to bed myself.)</p><p></p><p>My point in posting was to try to discourage adding any sexual content - heterosexual, homosexual, asexual, bisexual, trisexual, monosexual, or otherwise - simply for shock value or novelty - 'to spice things up'. I wasn't entirely sure what the thinking of the poster was, so I was trying to be subtle. I'm still trying to discuss this thread, but people keep bringing modern politics into this, trying to tell everyone what homosexuality is and what we should think about it good or bad, criticizing belief systems about homosexuality, and everything else instead of focusing on how and whether it should be introduced into a campaign. 'K, folks?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 703704, member: 4937"] What Nifft describes is by far the more common Indo-European cultural phenomenom, and is a good example of divorsing sexual practice from a modern dicotomy that some other posters seem trapped in. Although, Nifft only touches on some of the double standards and social stigmas that exist even in societies that function like that. KB: It seems entirely unlikely given what we know about humans that most religion and cultures are not going to impose sexual taboos. Even if those taboos might seem alien to you, they are still taboos bearing the force of law in many cases and can still get you killed or ostracized for dishonoring some god, goddess, to whom that taboo is (or is supposedly) in honor of. Consider all the various Taboos of the Hindu religious caste system, despite of, or maybe because of its multiplicity of gods (Have you ever actually read the real Kama Sutra?). Or consider the Roman example. In ancient Rome being a homosexual was considered distasteful in the extreme and the profanity of the day very much resembled modern derogatory comments (read the poetry of Cutullus for instance), but homosexuality was defined not in terms of which sex you favored but whether or not you were the penetrated partner. A similar situation exists in several other cultures both ancient and modern. And I'm sure we could get into even more alien human social mores, but I would like to keep this PG and a history of human sexual behavior just can't. Ciaran: Get some sleep. You are going to be alot more fun to debate with when you start making sense. (I'm headed to bed myself.) My point in posting was to try to discourage adding any sexual content - heterosexual, homosexual, asexual, bisexual, trisexual, monosexual, or otherwise - simply for shock value or novelty - 'to spice things up'. I wasn't entirely sure what the thinking of the poster was, so I was trying to be subtle. I'm still trying to discuss this thread, but people keep bringing modern politics into this, trying to tell everyone what homosexuality is and what we should think about it good or bad, criticizing belief systems about homosexuality, and everything else instead of focusing on how and whether it should be introduced into a campaign. 'K, folks? [/QUOTE]
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