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Strictly a footnote to those 18 emperors et al......

"For the ancient Irish, sucking the king’s nipples was a way of showing submission." 
www.listverse.com/2017/01/28/10-ancient-bog-bodies-that-will-amaze-you

99.999% of people who read it will think it's ridiculous, meaningless nonsense. A few will see it for what it is, IMHO -- state homoeroticism. 

How about a thread further documenting the normalcy, social acceptance and ubiquity of homosexuality, in history and otherwise?

Anybody follow Listverse? The free email subscription brings you 3 daily lists of 10 wild facts about the world around us, much of it historical, with illustrations. It's sprinkled with considerable Grero material. The latest:

http://listverse.com/2016/12/01/10-facts-about-samurai-that-movies-usually-leave-out/
In feudal Japan, nothing made a man more of a sissy than spending a whole night sleeping with beautiful women.

Sex with women, the samurai believed, had a feminizing effect that weakened a man’s mind and body. The samurai married because they needed to further the family line, but they didn’t want to get carried away with it. If a samurai was caught kissing his wife in public, he was called a sissy.

That didn’t mean the samurai were celibate. Sex with women was a little fruity, but sex with men was incredibly macho. Homosexual sex, the samurai believed, just made you tougher than ever.

The page reports a lot of awful stuff about the samurai, but the above info is pure gold. Exactly how established was homosexuality in uniform around the ancient world? It's a 25-hour flight from Greece, ancient home of the Sacred Band, to Tokyo :-)

A shame this Forum is inactive. Let's change that!