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> On Nov 15, 2006, at 5:23 PM, Miles Jackson wrote:
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> > Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> >
> >> I followed the link and looked at the original Farsi text. Once
> >> again, it is a case of understanding what "لواط" [lavat]
> >> means. A
> >> person who engages in lavat is not necessarily gay, much as a person
> >> who engages in sodomy is not necessarily gay. Neither lavat nor
> >> sodomy is identical to consensual same-sex sex, let alone consensual
> >> same-sex sex between two self-identified gay men. Anyone who has
> >> read
> >> Foucault, Jonathan Ned Katz, etc. knows the difference with regard to
> >> sodomy. It's time for us to learn the difference with regard to
> >> lavat.
> >
> > This is interesting to me; what is lavat? Is there another term
> > for the Western concepts gay and lesbian?
>
> Someone gets executed, at least in part for buttfucking or
> cocksucking, and this is what the discussion turns on?
>
> Doug
Not if it is rape.
Travis