Clement of Alexandria on Homosexuality

Revisiting a project I began many moons ago - refuting revisionist theology on homosexuality.

Looking now at the writings of select church fathers,in order to learn how they preached on the subject of human sexuality.

 

Clement of Alexandria (c.150-211/216AD) was a theologian who taught at the Catechetical School of Alexandria. His parents were pagans. He was a convert to Christianity,having rejected paganism as a young man due to its perceived moral corruption.

http://www.religionfacts.com/christianity/people/clement_alexandria.htm

 

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

 

He argued that both promiscuity and sexual abstinence are unnatural, and that the main goal of human sexuality is procreation. Homosexuality, prostitution, concubinage, adultery and coitus with pregnant women should all be avoided as they will not act towards the generation of legitimate offspring.

^"But the embellishment of [a man shaving all his bodily hair], if it is to attract men, is the act of an effeminate person ; if to attract women, is the act of an adulterer; and both must be driven as far as possible from our society."

 

"But life has reached this pitch of licentiousness through the wantonness of wickedness, and lasciviousness is diffused over the cities...and boys, taught to deny their sex, act the part of women."

 

"I admire the ancient legislators of the Romans: these detested effeminacy of conduct; and the giving of the body to feminine purposes, contrary to the law of nature..."

http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf02.vi.iii.iii.iii.html