Posted on 01/30/2015 7:06:47 AM PST by SeekAndFind
yes
In imperial Rome, homosexual and heterosexual rape, carried out as an expression of male potestas (dominance) was a commonplace. It was probably best portrayed in Spartacus, in the gut-wrenching scene where Crassus (Laurence Olivier) sets out to seduce Antoninus (Tony Curtis)
This may have been common in the years of the Principate, but not so common during the Republic. When we speak of Imperial Rome, we usually mean the period after the fall of the Republic. There is no evidence that Crassus had any gay proclivities at all. Howard Fast, who wrote the novel on which Spartacus is based, disapproved of the scene in the movie. I think the "Crassus" of Spartacus was based more on the earlier Roman figure Lucius Cornelius Sulla. Sulla did become dictator of Rome, something Crassus never did.
He can get through this by writing a rambling diatribe, say it’s the word of some obscure pagan diety, and declare himself a prophet.
Pedophilia?
I was aware of his using 17-year olds in his sex parties, but pedophillia is defined as attraction to prepubescents (11 years-old or younger.)
Definitions are important. What he did was terrible (and depending on circumstances perhaps illegal), but unless I am misinformed it did not invoke small children.
This is flirting with libel.
Name him, ping him...
In the US for example, the age of consent ranges from 16 to 18. In some countries, it is much lower.
Yes..and reading the police complaint, he had sex with at least one 14-year old.
Which is statutory rape and makes him a sex offender...but that is not the same as pedophillia.
Consensual sex with a 14-yearly is terrible and criminal, but it is not the same legally as sexually abusing. 10 year-old.
This is starting to read like a Who’s Who of the Clinton Impeachment.
Is there no one who arrives in DC and leaves unstained?
The left has worked since the social revolution of the 60’s to normalize abnormal behavior within the American (and Western) culture. And they have succeeded. Sodomy and the various forms of homosexuality are now considered normal and, in fact, in many places to criticize such behavior could place you behind bars. Normalizing pedophilia is the next step.
You must admit those 60’s radicals are good in what they have done - they are now respected (by many )professors, politicians and clergy persons. I am an octogenarian and admit that my former self would have been willing to bet big money this would never have happened - but it did. Lord have mercy on us all.
Keep dreaming. The human penchant to cast aside morality in order to "fit in" is far too prevalent. Most people will go along with just about anything if the right pressure is applied.
Any writer who references Hollywood movies as proof of his historical pronouncements is a real Mongo.
“You must admit those 60’s radicals are good in what they have done - they are now respected (by many )professors, politicians and clergy persons. I am an octogenarian and admit that my former self would have been willing to bet big money this would never have happened - but it did. Lord have mercy on us all.”
Not at this point. If the history of ancient Israel’s decline and the writings of the prophets about that nation and others are taken seriously, one sees that the US is due for punishment and destruction. And God uses worse nations to cause it.
Excellent point!
One of my pet peeves.
It’s just progressivism.
Riding around wearing clown costumes with the likes of the Rapist in chief and all the rest of the trash from hollywood . Why is this man still walking the streets?
Homosexuality is a mental illness. If we are going to accept that mental illness then we will be accepting of other mental deviancies such as pedophilia, polygamy, bestiality, etc.
“I was aware of his using 17-year olds in his sex parties, but pedophillia is defined as attraction to prepubescents (11 years-old or younger.)”
Good point, sound more like he’s a pedestrian.
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