Re: New Arvorec words

Hey Jesse,

    This was fascinating to me. Excellent background.
I might suggest one thing, though, for your
consideration. No matter how anti-gay a culture is,
there are usually some areas where it persists. Even
Islamic culture, for example, has a wealth of gay
poetry from the middle ages. You might think of
alternate relationships, or "black market"
relationships, somewhere in your culture.

   Perhaps prostitutes have exclusively same sex
clientele, so that the emphasis on family isn't
violated on accident. In which case, you'd have some
inncuous and non-derogatory "secret terms" for gay sex
and so on. Of course, I'm not terribly familiar with
Yivrindil society, and a lot of this depends on how
large or small the culture is. It would have to be on
the bigger side in order for this to show up at all...

    Still, regardless, it's really intersting...

         Aidan


--- jesse stephen bangs <jaspax@...>
wrote:

> Both of the above are insulting terms.  Yivríndil
> culture places heavy
> emphasis on family and monogamy, so homosexuality is
> heavily discouraged
> since it precludes reproduction (with the technology
> and social norms
> of Yivríndil society).  Homosexuality is seen as an
> unnatural condition
> akin to mental illness, and homosexual relationships
> are neither
> recognized nor openly practiced.  The culture has no
> word or concept of
> bisexuality.
>
> I hadn't thought about much of this before this
> thread came up, but all of
> these conditions are inevitable with the cultural
> foundations I've already
> designed.  When your whole society centers around
> family, a lifestyle that
> produces no children can hardly be tolerated.
>

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