Go talk to a Muslim with some knowledge of the Koran and don't believe what the media tell you, or you'll find yourself reported as wanting to wipe Saudi Arabia off the map or something and be sent to Gautanamo. Some say that quotation is about raisins! If people are brave enough to die to oppose oppression they don't do it for silly fantasies but because of real suffering.

Surely the point is that there are a few people wholly committed to a homosexual lifestyle and a rather greater number committed to heterosexuality, but that, for most people, things will depend on opportunity. Thus some RC priests go in for child-abuse, while many sailors and prisoners (for instance) traditionally favoured homosexual acts, the other kind not being available. Classical Athenian society kept its women in harem-like conditions and thereofore romanticised the love of young men. Obviously some sort of homosexual feeling is going affect relationships in the puritanical area east of the Mediterranean, as it always has, whatever the religion.