Article
Spanish
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Abstract
Referring to a history of sexuality and the forms of sexuality experienced in different times and places means starting from a fundamental principle: sexuality is a cultural fact. Building on this principle, the article explores the main problems of the evolution of homosexuality on the basis of the principles that established the development of primitive Christianity as part of the experience of late antiquity. It then explores the evolution of doctrinal discourse and ‘sodomic’ behaviours, a medieval term, to observe their changes especially in the 12th and 13th centuries, when an intolerant approach to the sexual difference was defined. Although with different attitudes and interpretations due to the process of meeting European cultures with indigenous and African cultures that treated sexuality differently, Christianity maintained its legacy positions from the medieval world. However, in the colonies, the punishment of the criminal offence against, naturally, it depended on a wide range of cases, which was never as drastic as it was carried out in Europe. Speech and practice, in the history of Christianity, defined the space from which we can now ask what is and how the western ideal of being a woman and man was formed. In other words, Christian society defined how sexual behaviour should be, while establishing the parameters on which gender relations were articulated.