Whilst the religious is seen to concentrate on men having the same sex orientation,
and assigning bible versus against sexual immorality as referring to them, could it be
that cities such as Jerusalem, Ephesus, Corinth, and Rome in the bible, were known for female
prostitution rather than anything to do with Homosexuals! which was
something exortic and a small minority then as today.
The conservative majority has never been conservative....... as we can see in the semi-nude
photos of Miss California who has marketed the aspect of her conservative faith.
It is no wonder that St Paul insisted that man should have at most one wife, and if
possible not to marry, but alas the obsession with sex would be too hard to bear especially
in the sexually charged environment of Corinth with its worship of the female goddesses.
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Obsession with Naked Women Dates Back 35,000 Years, Lifescience, 13 May 2009
If human culture seems obsessed with sex lately, it's nothing new. Archaeologists have discovered the oldest known artistic representation of a woman - a carved ivory statue of a naked female, dating from 35,000 years ago.
The figurine, unearthed in September 2008 in Hohle Fels Cave in southwestern Germany, may be the oldest known example of figurative art, meaning art that is supposed to represent and resemble a real person, animal or object. The discovery could help scientists understand the origins of art and the advent of symbolic thinking, including complicated language.
"If there's one conclusion you want to draw from this, it's that an obsession with sex goes back at least 35,000 years," University of Cambridge anthropologist Paul Mellars told LiveScience. He was not involved in the new finding. "But if humans hadn't been largely obsessed with sex they wouldn't have survived for the first 2 million years. None of this is at all surprising."
The statue is notable not just for its symbolism, but for its style - particularly its sexuality.
"The figure is explicitly - and blatantly - that of a woman, with an exaggeration of sexual characteristics (large, projecting breasts, a greatly enlarged and explicit vulva, and bloated belly and thighs) that by twenty-first-century standards could be seen as bordering on the pornographic," Mellars wrote in a commentary essay in Nature.
Scientists guess that it may have represented female fertility, or been related to shamanistic rituals and beliefs.
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