An example of egalitarian male domestic partnership from the early Zhou Dynasty period of China is recorded in the story of Pan Zhang & Wang Zhongxian. While the relationship was clearly approved by the wider community, and was compared to heterosexual marriage, it did not involve a religious ceremony binding the couple.[8]
Some early Western societies integrated same-sex relationships. The practice of same-sex love in ancient Greece often took the form of pederasty, which was limited in duration and in many cases co-existed with marriage.[9] Documented cases in this region claimed these unions were temporary pederastic relationships.[10][11][12][13][14][15][16] These unions created a moral dilemma for the Greeks and were not universally accepted.[17]
Among the Romans, there were instances of same-sex marriages being performed, as evidenced by emperors Nero who married an unwilling young boy [18][19][20] and (possibly - though it is doubted by many historians) the child emperor Elagabalus,[21] who both supposedly married a man, and by its outlaw by the Christian emperors Constantius II and Constans in 342 AD,[22] but the exact intent of the law and its relation to social practice is unclear, as only a few examples of same-sex marriage in that culture exist.
An example of egalitarian male domestic partnership from the early Zhou Dynasty period of China is recorded in the story of Pan Zhang & Wang Zhongxian. While the relationship was clearly approved by the wider community, and was compared to heterosexual marriage, it did not involve a religious ceremony binding the couple.[8]Some early Western societies integrated same-sex relationships. The practice of same-sex love in ancient Greece often took the form of pederasty, which was limited in duration and in many cases co-existed with marriage.[9] Documented cases in this region claimed these unions were temporary pederastic relationships.[10][11][12][13][14][15][16] These unions created a moral dilemma for the Greeks and were not universally accepted.[17]Among the Romans, there were instances of same-sex marriages being performed, as evidenced by emperors Nero who married an unwilling young boy [18][19][20] and (possibly - though it is doubted by many historians) the child emperor Elagabalus,[21] who both supposedly married a man, and by its outlaw by the Christian emperors Constantius II and Constans in 342 AD,[22] but the exact intent of the law and its relation to social practice is unclear, as only a few examples of same-sex marriage in that culture exist.
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