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Today’s video

Dan McClelland has made an interesting video on Old Testament Leviticus and its prohibition of male same-sex intercourse.

He does confirm the general idea that pre-modern Europe and Middle East had no idea of homosexuality as we understand it (as an inborn sexual orientation). It was the act that concern them, not any kind of preference,  and what was considered intolerable was a man being the receptive partner during intercourse.

However, he argues that the bans in Leviticus is actually addressing the active partner, because he was breaking the very social rules that upheld the implicit hierarchy of power.  This violation of the social order creates a feeling of disgust. The heterosexual “ick” following the idea of same-sex sex was  rationalized and codified in the law. There is no rational basis for the ban at all.

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