I read before the Crusades, pederasty, where a man dates a boy, was socially accepted. But Christianity with the crusades made sure people stop doing that. So perhaps Christianity is really good?
While most Greek men engaged in sexual relations with both women and boys,[12] exceptions to the rule were known, some avoiding relations with women, and others rejecting relations with boys. In Rome, relations with boys took a more informal and less civic path, with older men either taking advantage of dominant social status to extract sexual favors from their social inferiors, or carrying on illicit relationships with freeborn boys.[13]
Judaism and Christianity condemned sodomy (while defining that term variously, but including relations between males). Islam also prohibited the practice.
The Renaissance was a period that saw a rediscovery or renewed interest in the philosophy and art of the Classical period. The Roman Catholic Church suppressed homosexual and pederastic expressions of attraction, especially through the machinery of the Inquisition, most infamously the Spanish Inquisition.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pederasty
While most Greek men engaged in sexual relations with both women and boys,[12] exceptions to the rule were known, some avoiding relations with women, and others rejecting relations with boys. In Rome, relations with boys took a more informal and less civic path, with older men either taking advantage of dominant social status to extract sexual favors from their social inferiors, or carrying on illicit relationships with freeborn boys.[13]
Judaism and Christianity condemned sodomy (while defining that term variously, but including relations between males). Islam also prohibited the practice.
The Renaissance was a period that saw a rediscovery or renewed interest in the philosophy and art of the Classical period. The Roman Catholic Church suppressed homosexual and pederastic expressions of attraction, especially through the machinery of the Inquisition, most infamously the Spanish Inquisition.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pederasty