jtdam09
[13] Hero
17th century is not Ancient Greece.Homophobia didn't exist in ancient Greece. So much that they didn't even have words to differentiate homosexual from heterosexual. It was all seen as the same.
Haven't checked the Ottoman Empire yet, but England, in particular, did have sodomy laws in the 17th century (Buggery Act 1533), which were extremely strict at the time. There were still VERY FEW cases like King James I and his few male lovers, but they were not as mainstream in Europe as today.
For Japan, however, this was a different story. Usually young boys were the ones who were involved in gender fluidity and pederasty with older men. Think what Ranmaru Mori and Nobunaga Oda were rumored to be.
Sidenote: If they make my dream character a man, I will find you and I will kill you.
Edit: Researching Ottoman Empire and I don't see anything saying that it was prohibited for them. Only "decriminalized" in 1858. I'm assuming that they had a similar instance as Japan in the 1600s. I find this ironic given how the Turks and Arabs are now because of wanting to be like "Europeans".
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