>>18555472
Actually not as gay as you would think. Semen was seen as poisonous if induced to another man. Like the shame of having semen inside you should make you sick as a man.

That being said I am sure they were fucking slaves as young as 12 up the ass. Same as any culture.

>>18555472
The modern concept of gay never really existed back then. Premodern societies generally viewed male sexuality through the lens of dominance and submission (with ancient Rome and Greece viewing submissive men as not worthy of respect, similar to how modern gay men were seen through the 20th and 21st centuries)

>>18555491
Some absolutely hated any homosex tho. Germans were not kind to faggots. Hell even Freyr's men and Odin's magicians were considered "effeminate" by more masculine cults and they used "women magic."

>>18555491
In the Seth and Horus myth Seth tries to molest Horus in his sleep and then use that as evidence that Horus is not fit to be king, but Horus caught the semen and then got his mother's help to jack off on a lettuce that Seth was planning on eating.
Then thoth uses jizz magic to call upon the divine semen and there isn't any of Seth's semen inside Horus but there is Horus's semen inside Seth.

Which clearly doesn't disqualify Horus from being eligible as king of the gods, despite Seth's claim that having had antoehr man cum inside Horus would make him ineligible. My inference from that is that clearly the top/bottom dynamic we re familiar with made its way in to that particular version of the myth. None of the gods care that gay sex has apparently been happening, but apparently the role matters. Of course, kingly fertility was an important component of ritual life so maybe it is about the king specifically.

>>18555523
>Germans were not kind to faggots.
thats based on a shoddy translation.

>>18555477
>That being said I am sure they were fucking slaves as young as 12 up the ass. Same as any culture.
Assyrians made male to male rape illegal