Why is it that the word homosexual needed to be invented after the renaiscaince and we needed to wait anther 3 hundred years before the word gay was invented.
2007-04-27 17:54:16 · 17 answers · asked by zyp_john 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Because it takes a while to develop words that describe an unnatural and abnormal behavior, especially when it's right there destroying your empire.
2007-04-27 17:57:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Well, probably because homosexuality is indescribably gross. The word "gay" has been around for centuries. The homos had to find a word and liked "gay" for themselves to make their lifestyle sound good.
2007-04-28 01:06:39 · answer #2 · answered by CJohn317 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I cor. 6:9 effeminate, King James version of homosexual
from original translation of Greek:
a) effeminate
1) of a catamite
2) of a boy kept for homosexual relations with a man
3) of a male who submits his body to unnatural lewdness
2007-04-28 01:05:51 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sodomites
2007-04-28 01:21:03 · answer #4 · answered by wisdom 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't believe that for a second. You can be sure that there were homosexuals 2,000 years ago and 20,000 years ago and 200,000 years ago. I don't know what the ancient Romans called them but I'd bet a month's pay they had a word for it.
2007-04-28 01:03:17 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Intuitive guesses:
soprahau-angelic MM or FF
selvano-a way to say you're amused by it, slight judgement
sitaranu-FF
selpakano-MF desirous of celibacy but not too much suffering
sitraunabe-MF very desirous of celibacy
sikanodephel-only to avoid distractions from necessary life tasks
2007-04-28 01:08:02 · answer #6 · answered by isis 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sodomite......thats the word you're looking for. They did have a word for it. Sodomy...as in Sodom.
And the word "Gay" used to have a completely different definition all together.
2007-04-28 00:58:32 · answer #7 · answered by Augustine 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't know the Roman word but it was equivalent to dog because of the position of sex.
Terms as such, "the price of a dog".
2007-04-28 01:03:36 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
thy call it Effeminate 1 cor 6-9
2007-04-28 01:21:04 · answer #9 · answered by esther9364622 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe they did, but the word has fallen out of use like so many other words.
2007-04-28 00:58:03 · answer #10 · answered by Desiree 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋