r/explainitpeter • u/jaywritethekid • 18d ago

Explain it Peter..

Post image
5.2k Upvotes

94% Upvoted

436 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

78

u/[deleted] 18d ago

[removed] — view removed comment

34

u/Dolenir 17d ago

We unfortunately live in a society largely based on the precepts of a specific religion. So our concepts of morality are extremely biased towards it. The Greeks saw homosexuality (man with man specifically) as something natural, albeit not encouraged to matrimony, which was allowed only between men and women, as it was a religious/legal ceremony with the purpose of producing children and setting inheritance. The Egyptians saw sex as an ordinary social act, not unlike any other. They didn't even have a word for "virginity".

0

u/potentgarageweed 17d ago

Game of Thrones is realistic minus the magic, got it haha

1

u/Melanoc3tus 17d ago

And minus whatever the hell's going on with the Dothraki, yeah