GAZE/AHEAD

The bisexual god Atum was known as the “Great He-She.” Atum was also known by many other names like Khepri, the great scarab beetle, Ra-Harakhte, the winged-solar disk, Ra, the midday sun, Aten, the solar-disk, or Horus on the Horizon. No matter what name he took he was viewed as the one and only creator in the universe.

Almost all people are bisexual by nature, although most people choose, or are conditioned, to limit themselves to the opposite sex. Thus, for almost all so-called “straight” people, their sexual identity is defined by their behavior, and is subject to influence or change. In fact, in the ancient world, most people were actively bisexual in their behavior at different times in their lives.

However, as a minority, gays differ by nature from the majority – not in our attraction to the same sex, but only in our physical lack of response to the opposite sex. Being naturally impotent for procreative sex, innately gay men were referred to in the ancient world as “born eunuchs” or just “eunuchs.” Meanwhile, women who innately lacked response to men were seen as a particular kind of “virgins.”  If indeed this is an accurate reflection of all men, then this may be the motivation behind the prevailing belief that homosexuality is a “choice”.