[bjd]

I don’t know what you mean by ‘acceptable.’ But I think you’re asking why men in some cultures can have sex with men and still be seen as heterosexual. I think the first ‘myth’ to dispell is that other cultures ‘see’ people as having a sexuality (i.e. heterosexuality, homosexuality, etc.). Those specific terms–heterosexual and homosexual–are late 19th and 20th century, Western inventions. In fact, homosexual was used before heterosexual in the U.S. and Europe, and it initially wasn’t used to describe ‘normal’ sexual relations but rather promiscuous, pleasure-seeking men (mostly) and women. Clearly you see that there are differences in the ways different cultures relate to bodies and bodily pleasure, but I think you’re still looking at these differences through the lens that only works on our own cultures.

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