Adam and Steve (what the Bible says about homosexuality)
Data Over Dogma
The Role of the Freeborn Citizen in Sexual Relationships
In ancient Southwest Asia, freeborn citizen men were at the very top of that social hierarchy. For a man to take a role that might be considered submissive or subordinate within a sexual relationship was considered problematic. And we have ancient Mesopotamian texts that talk about how that renders a man ritually impure for a month. We have a Talmudic text that actually says that that will give a man diarrhea.
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