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  • From: Ratson Naharadama <yahoo-arch AT heplist.com>
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  • Subject: [b-hebrew] Re: Sodom's Historical Sin..
  • Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:45:19 -0700

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




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