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LOUDER FOR THE HISTORIANS IN THE BACK, MR SCHULTZ

James A. Schultz, 2006, ‘Heterosexuality as a Threat to Medieval Studies,’ Journal of the History of Sexuality, 15, 1, pp.14-29

There have always been gay people. I’ve never understood why humans have pervasively framed it as a scourge of their time. It been a constant through all of your time. The more complex the brain, the more layered and nuanced becomes sexuality. One could hypothesize that as humans evolved to possess more higher brain function, there were more gay people, but that would require study.

The point is…the only scourge to humanity is the hatred of things that each individual cannot understand.