Azrael the cat
Arcane
You are all laughing now, but in 50 years or so it's likely to be true. I bet people 100 years ago never even considered a marriege between two men possible. As long as gay phedofiles keep running our countries the decline continues
Yet in 'great warrior land Sparta', sex with women was viewed as only suitable for reproduction, whereas only man-on-man could have the capacity for monocle-intellect and manly-romance needed for true love.
Most of the time, they'd be shagging the boy that they'd raised from near-birth. It was encouraged for military tactical reasons. The Spartan used long spears (2 hands, sometimes buckler but no shield), and would use a tactical formation where they would hold an ultra-strict line, working on a tactic of alternating movements across 2 halves. Each group would thrust then block across to deflect anything directed at the guy next to them. The two groups would be staggered so that while one group was thrusting with their spears, the guy next to them would be sweeping and protecting them from any attack (hence the long spears and ultra-strict line formation - meant that they could just sweep across and down without having to worry about the multiple angles that a closer-range sword combat would have opened up). They encouraged the paedo-sex because the guy who raised (read: 'shagged') the kid would be deliberately put next to them in battle. The belief was that if you had been raised by a guy, and spent your whole life with him as your one love, you sure as fuck weren't going to let some Persian pike get through your block and kill him.
Regardless, the Spartans were pretty much the uncontested dominant land force of their time. The Athenians completely wiped the floor with them, but that's because they were so much better culturally and scientifically that their ships and siege equipment were lighter, faster and could transport more men. Think of the Mediterranean and Turkey, and then think about the Athenians having utterly uncontested naval dominance. The Spartans could march to attack Athens and the Athenians could send their ships, kill everyone in Sparta, leave the Spartans without a supply trail and be back in Athens before the Spartans were halfway there.
Of course, eventually the Athenians pissed everyone off so much that all the other city states said that they'd agree to pay taxes in return for a vote in the Athenian senate. Athens said 'fuck you, you'll pay us taxes and you won't get no fucking vote in our senate anyway' (or words to that effect). Then every country in the (then) known civilised world attacked Athens at once and occupied them long enough for Sparta to actually land an army in Athens without Athenian ships assraping them on the way.
Anyway, moral of the story: no point in citing historical expectations as evidence for your personal worldview. There's always an earlier example where people held the opposite view, and did well with it, holding it as central to their explanation of their own success (ala Sparta believing women were too shit for anything but recreation, true love only being between men, and homosexuality improving military bravery).
