Love Between Women: Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism

religion-and-sex

• If church people continue to base policy on the priority of heterosexual marriage over love between women, we perpetuate ancient traditions that have debased the lives of lesbians.

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• Female-female sexual relations entered the human race at some historical point as a result of idolatry, in line with medical teachers arguing the tribadic condition arose from shameful custom.

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obedience-and-authority

• Once these people turned away from the true God, God gave them up to a debased mind—cognitive language echoing that they committed their principal error with their minds.

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• Did a husband suspecting his wife of a relationship with a woman bring her in for surgery? Would a brothel owner order the operation to maintain control of a prostitute?

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desire

• One cultural response was to depict one woman as having become like a man, possessing an enlarged clitoris, dildo, or phallus-like appendage wherewith to penetrate her female partner.

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• For Lucian, the mind seems to be the most powerful sex organ; sexual roles among such women are fluid since the hetairistria is not literally a phallic woman.

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