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To: haqihana who wrote (87618)	11/21/2004 6:16:49 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793818

Why, I cannot fathom. Availability. Women were kept locked up. Actually, this is still something that occurs today in some cultures. It's still acceptable in Arabic culture and some Latino cultures. It's OK to pitch, but not to catch, as it were.

To: haqihana who wrote (87618)	11/21/2004 8:32:45 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793818

Yes, Alexander had two marriages, so he was bi-sexual. But he is not recorded as having any mistresses, only his lover Hephaistion and the Persian boy Bagoas, so it's pretty clear that he had little taste for women. The Greeks and the Persians certainly were inclined to homosexuality, as are the Arabs today, though the Koran disapproves. I think the answer is in the nature of those misogynistic societies. Women were kept locked up and uneducated. Marriages were arranged by the family on an economic basis, not a romantic one. A man wouldn't expect to have a love affair with his wife, and his affairs with other women would tend to be on a paying basis. Only a rich man could afford a high class hetaira who would have an education and be worth talking to. Small wonder the Greeks considered heterosexual love to be lower class than homosexual love.