Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Ratson Naharadama <yahoo-arch AT heplist.com>]

Gary Hedrick wrote:
» They were bisexual, in other words.

If the events of the story are making references to male-on-male sexual 
activities, there is another possibility that I have not seen 
mentioned.  Some peoples in various places and times (including the 
Lavant) would sometimes drive out unwelcomed visitors to their territory 
via anal rape.  These violators would be heterosexual, but the weapon 
they would use to humiliate, degrade, and cause-to-be-submited an 
unwelcomed person would be to rape them.  This still occurs in many 
places in the middle east, today.  In the Middle East and northern 
Africa, this was also very commonly done to prisoners of a defeated army.

In the Genesis Sodom story, *if* this is what was going on in that 
story, the male-on-male activity itself isn't what is being frowned on, 
it is primarily the violation of hospitality toward guests and strangers 
that is being frowned on.
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Ratson Naharädama
Denver, Colorado