Here is an interesting article for you to read:
http://www.westernbuddhistreview.com...sexuality.html

With some back-up and expanded context:
http://japanhistory-homo.blogspot.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_in_Japan


http://www.studentpulse.com/articles...nt-confinement



Basically, when Buddhism was introduced to Japan, homosexuality as an acceptable practice was as well. Women became thought of as literal offspring of the devil, and purely evil creatures whose only purpose in life was to provide children. True love and a perfect relationship was only between a young man/boy and an older man (again, notice how homosexuality and child molestation go together).



Greece was a very similar case, where for a while in several Hellenistic states sodomy was embraced. Women's role's were strictly that of child-bearing. Men would have sex with boys, and keep a wife simply to provide them with sons.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosex...ancient_Greece

http://www.theguardian.com/books/200...istory.society

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/wmna/hd_wmna.htm

http://webpage.pace.edu/nreagin/F200...alHISTORY.html