Homosexuality In Contemporary Society

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Issue of homosexuality in our contemporary societies has been a hot debate towards its acceptance, tolerance and legalisation between National States and its people. In our own continent Africa, those who offer traditional interpretations consider these phenomenon as un-African, despite its documented existence in ancient era being conducted particularly by the Pharaohs of Egypt and among the Meru’s of Kenya. Others reject homosexuality basing on religious grounds that God created man and woman. By definition Homosexuality is a sexual desire or behaviour which is channelled directly to a person of one’s own gender. Various societal groups faces challenges of social cohesion disintegration due to indifferences in opinions pertaining how they…show more content…
Although behavioural boundaries between the sexes may vary culturally, male persons are clearly differentiated from female persons; and progeny is assured by normative societal rules which correlate male and female gender roles with sexual behaviour, marriage, and the family. There is a general expectation in every society that a majority of adult men and women will cohabit and produce the next generation. Social pressure is thus applied in the direction of marriage. The general rule is that one should not remain single. Indian view towards homosexuality Cross-gender behaviour is accepted in other societies because it is believed that some supernatural event makes people that way prior to birth, or that the behaviour is acquired through some mystical force or dream after birth. In India, for example, the following belief exists about the Hijadas, cross-gender behaving males thought to be impotent at birth who later have their genitals removed, according to the hijadas one does not just become one by choice but it is something that comes through a dream or when meditating that they should take the route of being a hijada in life. (J.M. Carrier,…show more content…
Pederasty was the most common form of same-sex relationships between males in Greece was "paiderastia" (pederasty) meaning "boy love". It was a relationship between an older male and an adolescent youth. A boy was considered a "boy" until he was able to grow a full beard. In Athens the older man was called erastes, he was to educate, protect, love, and provide a role model for the boy, whose reward for him lay in his beauty, youth, and promise. The age limit for pederasty in ancient Greece seems to encompass, at the minimum end, boys of twelve years of age. To love a boy below the age of twelve was considered inappropriate, but no evidence exists of any legal penalties attached to this sort of
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