Homosexuality didn't exist in the bible until 1947

It was originally put there because the translators mistranslated the word from another language to English, they admitted it in 1964, supposedly there's original transcripts detailing meeting notes you can look up, I haven't done that though. The original word was (quite literally) boy m olester in the foreign language. The verses are literally protecting abuse victims by trying to dissuade people not to lay with boys, it also referred to other various acts originally in the verses. This mistranslation is what religious people cite to further their anti gay views.

Furthermore, relationships weren't seen under the lens of love but only for procreational sense, which makes sense since most people unalived when they were children, if you made it past 20 though, you would likely live a good portion after but before 20 was a rocky time for most people. Most people passed so it makes sense to "multiply" in an era where the life expectancy wasn't good.

But from my understanding they didn't think of relationships in the way we do now, it seems like biblical ages were transactional.

I should be clear though that even if it was in the original translation still doesn't make people right in the way they treat others, consenting adult relationships are wildly different than what's in the bible.

ElwoodBlues · M Best Comment

However, the notion of more than two genders has a LOOONG history!

Aristotle (fourth century BCE) had a different name for the three genders (Poetics 21): masculine, feminine, and “in between” (μεταξύ).

The Talmud, a huge and authoritative compendium of Jewish legal traditions, contains in fact no less than eight gender designations including:

1. Zachar, male.
2. Nekevah, female.
3. Androgynos, having both male and female characteristics.
4. Tumtum, lacking sexual characteristics.
5. Aylonit hamah, identified female at birth but later naturally developing male characteristics.
6. Aylonit adam, identified female at birth but later developing male characteristics through human intervention.
7. Saris hamah, identified male at birth but later naturally developing female characteristics.
8. Saris adam, identified male at birth and later developing female characteristics through human intervention.

Source: https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/the-eight-genders-in-the-talmud/

You can find other sources listing six or eight genders from Talmudic studies. Apparently six of them are mentioned "hundreds" of times; perhaps the other two don't get so many mentions?

Tastyfrzz · 61-69, M

The biblical world did not think in terms of:
-sexual orientation,
-equal romantic partnerships,
-lifelong same-sex marriages,
-personal identity categories like “gay” or “straight.”

Ancient sexual ethics were more focused on:
-purity,
-hierarchy,
-inheritance,
-family structure,
-tribal survival,
-and male honor

Let's face it. Gay people probably did not have a lot of kids. And if they did marry, their wives were probably not very happy.

SatanBurger · 36-40, F

@Tastyfrzz I already answered you saying exactly that too with your first response but I think you already commented before I typed lol, I won't repost it on this one but you are right. People double down because conservative arguments persist despite them misusing the language and its meaning though, despite mistranslations they don't seem to get historical attitudes were different. Biblical relationships were power dynamics that didn't really define any structure like that.