I'm done.  Who in the Hell are you?

Ya, it was like being in prison.  They had a thriving artestry that suddenly ended when they began this code of society.  Everything was regimated.  Every man was supposed to be interchangeable.  They were raised, from childhood, to be warriors, and nothing else.  Each man was only allowed to have the same amount of property, and wealth as every other.  There were allowed only 10,000 men in their population.  Less than desirable babys, were thrown off a cliff immediately in order to meet this goal.  They enslaved aother state, the whole thing.  Ori said, in the show I heard today, that there were almost a million of them.  They had elite warriors, that were trained by wandering around this place, and furtively killing men in the population, that stood out, or were successful or respected.

Ori said also that they treated women equally.  Equally bad I guess.  When the king of the Spartans took the 300 to Thermopoli, his wife knew he would not return.  Everyone knew that.  In their last conversation, she said, 'What are your instructions?'  He replied, 'Marry a good man, and have good children.'  You can see that as brave and bold if you choose, but I think that both of them were as cold to each other as it sounds.

No, I don't think you're less of a person than me.  I just want to be repected and have rights as a man, even if I don't want to have sex with any other man.  And that is not the case.

I was asking a question, actually, about history, and ancient cultures.  I find Ori to be an expert on just like about anything he talks about.  I don't want to believe it, but maybe one reason the Spartans were such excellent, reknown, warriors was because of their sexual practices.  If so, and how does anyone know his answer, was it because they were homosexual, or biisexaul, or because they had all this pent up libido that is direct, not at sex, but physical prowess.  Priests say that their libido is supposed to be subliminated to their calling.  I thought I was being funny but didn't think it should be offense to anyone.  Who is it that is touchy here?  Me?

If you want to see the effect of nutrition and fitness to sexuality, listen to the archived radio show for March 19, 2008.  Someone, if they could stand the truth, would have to take up his own words as part of his diet.

I had no intention of insulting you or anyone else with my beliefs.  I am sure you intended to insult me.  You did.

Ori,
I know this is probably out of line, or at least off the subject.  However, your title does mention sex, so I feel emboldened to ask this question.  I have an avid interest in history.  I have become a fan of the Spartans, mostly from your description.  However, I recently saw a documentary about Sparta.  It seems that males, and females were raised apart, and lived separate lives.  They knew little about how to relate to the oposite sex.  Marriages were arranged, and spouses did not live together.  Most sexual relations between them were furtive things in visits of the husband in the middle of the night.  And, of course, it mentions that boys may have had sex with their mentors, and other members of their military unit.

As for Alexander, he was indesputably a great tactition.  However, he probably murdered his own father.  The army that he feilded was entirely the product of his fathers efforts.  When he was in Persia, after conquest, he led a drunkend debatched life style.  He had dozens of carefully chosen wives, but the love of his life was another man, who seemed to travel with him to serve that as his only purpose.  When this beloved man died, Alexander was so agreived that he himself died a short time later.

Argh.  None of this sounds natural to me.  These habits were certainly not the result of evolutionary guidence.  Were they?  I would love to hear a response on this, and would greatly appreciate it if you could refute the whole thing!
Dan