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Last week I updated my five-part review of Bruce Thornton’s book and posted it over at Barbwire.com. Here are the articles: Excerpts From the Book ‘Eros—The Myth of Ancient Greek Sexuality’ Part 1: It’s…

Wrapping up our look at Bruce Thornton’s book Eros—The Myth of Ancient Greek Sexuality, one side in today’s debate regarding so-called homosexual “rights” cries “homophobe!,” “hater!,” “bigot!” In Thornton’s book we learn that there was…

I closed part 3 with this: And all this time you thought it was only “repressed” Christians that weren’t enlightened enough to see the supposed harmlessness of homosexuality. In Eros—The Myth of Ancient Greek…

For the Greeks, sexual desire, ultimately a force of nature to procreate, can be controlled for good. In his book Eros—The Myth of Ancient Greek Sexuality, Bruce Thornton explains that a common metaphor for…

Continuing with our excerpts of Bruce Thornton’s fantastic book Eros—The Myth of Ancient Greek Sexuality, let me state that while this is a multi-part article, I only deal with a fraction of the materials…

It is a good guess that few people know this: Hundreds of years before there was Christianity, there were people who saw homosexuality as perverse, against nature, and a disordering of the sexual impulse….