IT IS NOT THE IRANIAN HOMOSEXUAL WHO IS PERVERSE, BUT THE SOCIETY IN WHICH HE LIVES!
Love, erotica and images of sexuality are abundant in Iranian literature, poetry and paintings – Rather like India’s legacy of Kama Sutra, Iran also revealed itself to have an intensely erotic past and a delicious platter of sexual practices that our ancestors participated in. Like the Greeks love of boys, the depiction of sexuality and erotica in Persian literature and paintings is due to ambiguous sexualities that were never labelled as lesbian or gay but just a beautiful bond amongst two females or two males. Classic Persian literature and poetry (12th-15thcentury) overflowed with same-sex themes. Today in Iran while people can legally change their sex, sexual activity between members of the same sex is illegal and can be punishable by death penalty. LGBT rights in Iran have come into conflict since the 1930s.
