In a 1976 study, Gwen Broude and Sarah Greene compared attitudes towards and frequency of homosexuality in the ethnographic studies available in the Standard cross-cultural sample. Societal attitudes towards same-sex relationships have varied over time and place, from requiring all males to engage in same-sex relationships to casual integration, through acceptance, to seeing the practice as a minor sin, repressing it through law enforcement and judicial mechanisms, and to proscribing it under penalty of death. JSTOR ( September 2016) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.įind sources: 'History of homosexuality' – news Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. This article needs additional citations for verification.
