/lit/ - Literature

>>10721635
>Inglourious Basterds is Quentin Tarantino's best film.
True.
>>10722903
Consider the topic of homosexuality. If we study human populations, human bodies, neurology etc. we can see that some of them exhibit same-sex desire and behaviour, and that there are certain physiological and genetic differences between the population that displays these traits and those that do not.

At the same time, the concept of "homosexuality" is a constructed notion. The way homosexual acts and homosexual desires have been interpreted, expressed and categorised throughout history has been subject, like many aspects of human sexuality, to large degrees of differentiation. In antiquity, sexual roles and their implications/expression of/for gender roles were defined almost entirely by passivity vs activity, rather than homo- or heterosexual - for which there weren't correlating words. In Christian Europe, homosexual behaviour came under the label of "sodomy", and a person who engaged in same-sex activities wilfully was a sodomite, but a person who simply had same-sex desires wasn't. Heterosexual anal penetration was also considered sodomy. The term was defined by its deviance from vaginal and procreative penetration, rather than desire. Sexuality was act-defined, guilt-defined, rather than by inclination.

Constructions like these govern our sexual thinking, desires and behaviour. The sociological phenomena of straight-identifying "men who have sex with men" is a curious example of this. I've even heard it said that the majority of homosexual behaviour occurs outside the bounds of the gay identity (though I have no proof on hand to back this up, so take it as conjecture).

In ancient Greece (and other societies) homosexuality occurred within the social function of pederasty. In contemporary society acceptable homosexuality is generally considered to occur between two people of similar age and equal status.

>>10722933
The faggot who keeps saying Mishima can't be gay because muh Japanese social definitions is retarded. Mishima was a man deeply steeped in Western culture, both by being a 20th century Japanese and by being a well-read intellectual. Freud, Wilde, Mann.