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ComputerOperato:
These are not researches. Please post journals.

I was about asking you to back up your claims with research but thankfully someone did up there.

I still maintain that homosexuality was rare in Nigeria in those days.

Don't you people read?

The links I posted had academic sources. If you read through them you'd have seen these sources. One of these sources is a book by Stephen Murray and Will Roscoe titled: Boy wives and female husband's - studies
in African Homosexualities.

Now provide your own verifiable source that proved that homosexuality was rare in Nigeria(and Africa) in ancient times.

thebosstrevor:
what you posted are not proof just an article written without source to justify homosexuality.

I am african and i know the mood. Homosexuality is a cause on the land during those period.

The two articles I posted actually had academic sources. Maybe if you had read the entire document you would have seen it. One of the sources is a book by Stephen Murray and Will Roscoe titled: Boy wives and female husband's - studies in African Homosexualities.

Back to my question which you have done a poor job at evading. Where is your source to refute the prevailing academic literature on this subject? If your response is that "you are African and you know the mood," then that's not a very sufficient or coherent response.

thebosstrevor:
reading these article make me laugh because it an effort by westerners to justify that african had a homosexuality history which is not true.

In most pre christian african culture you can be killed and barnish from the land for homosexuality.

Where is your own proof for your claims? If every research document is propaganda by westerners to justify behaviors that they want to push unto Africans, where is your own factual information to counteract their supposedly concocted data? What are your verifiable sources?

Macdonald001:
It is highly biological...

I never said it wasn't.

thebosstrevor:
you assertion about homosexuality is wrong. It is just a propaganda

What's a propaganda? The research material is fake or that homosexuality isn't biological?

ComputerOperato:
Actually, I am not implying anything.
What I am very sure of is this "Culture and the environment plays an important part on human behaviour".

Why do you think there were few if any gay behaviour in the days of our fathers (in Africa) as in contrast to what is obtained now when the whole world is a global village?

There is quite a difference between human behavior and human sexuality. Culture and environment has a way lesser effect on the later and this effect is mainly on how it's expressed in public. Human sexuality pertains to our sexual preferences - this is primarily biologically mediated and since lots of human sexual activities are done in private, culture doesn't play that much of a role. There were female masochists in sub-saharan Africa before the advent of the internet.

Anthropological research has confirmed that homosexuality was prevalent in ancient African cultures. The current opposition to homosexuality in African countries is a consequence of the spread of Christianity post colonization.

I usually see anti-religionists use the correlation between extremely poor countries and high levels of religiosity as evidence that the poverty these countries face is as a result of high levels of religious adherence. They usually make statements like: The reason Nigeria is economically wretched is because Nigerians are very religious and if Nigeria becomes less religious poverty levels will decrease.

The truth however is that high levels of religiosity doesn't lead to poverty. The reverse is actually the case. The more a society becomes poor the more religious the denizens of that society become. This is because religion acts as a comforting mechanism for the poor and dispossessed. It acts as a form of support during times of need and difficulty. It also promises a solution to various life's problems most of which are undergirded by lack of financial resources.
As a society becomes richer people tend to not require religion as much because most of their needs are met and hence the support and promises religion offers becomes irrelevant.

So religion isn't the cause of Nigeria's poverty. The problem is our economic condition. When our economic situation is addressed through the tools of good governance, proper policies and increased economic sovereignty, then poverty levels will decrease and levels of religiosity would inexorably reduce.

I am actually of the opinion that the high level of religiosity that we have in Nigeria is actually more advantageous that it is disadvantageous. Societies with high levels of poverty tend to have high levels of crime. Although the level of crime currently in Nigeria is high, if religion was erased, it would be way higher because lots of people aren't committing crime simply because their religions proscribe crime.

ComputerOperato:
Obviously yes.
Culture plays an important part in people's behaviour you know.
Especially when it comes to se*x.
This I am pretty much aware of.

Are you implying that masochism is a learned behavior of which is subject to cultural conditioning, rather than an innate sexual preference of which culture has little effect on how it manifests?

ComputerOperato:
I know it happens in the West.
Never knew it could happen here in Naija.

I attached the posts of guys who said they met people like that here.

Hope its not against the rules..

Why would it happen in the west and not happen in Nigeria? Are westerners predisposed to certain sexual behaviors that black Africans aren't?