Memories of days past
more talk about the present
than about the past. 

You can often hear from apologists for same-sex relationships that homosexuality was the norm in the ancient world, especially in ancient Rome and Greece. In fact, the myth of a “homosexual utopia” in ancient Greece was popularized by Oscar Wilde, who was convicted of sodomy, and the fragmentary evidence that has reached us in the form of ancient texts and works of art indicates rather the opposite. Throughout human history, homosexuality, especially in a passive role, has existed as a shameful and marginal phenomenon. Only in decayed civilizations, during their decline, same-sex practices may have gained some popularity, but even then, attraction to members of the same sex, stronger than to representatives of the opposite, was considered beyond the norm. Nowhere and never before our time have exclusively homosexual relationships between adults been sanctioned.