8. Ancient Greece: Where homosexuality was completely out of the closet
The ancient Greeks did not conceive of sxual orientation as a social identifier the way Western societies have done for the past century. Greek society did not distinguish sxual desire or behavior by the gender of the participants, but rather by the role that each participant played in the s*x act, that of the active penetrator or the passive penetrated.
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