Chapter 274 - Last Rites part 5

"That sounds pretty gay," Lukas snorted, his voice dripping with disdain.

"I have never understood your modern notions of sexual identity," I replied mildly. "It seems so terribly stifling to me. It's no wonder you modern people gobble tranquilizers like they're candy. You have so many rules! It was not so when I was a mortal man, and was rarely so oppressive throughout all of mankind's history. Sex is not a product to be packaged and sold to the masses, categorized and restricted like some dangerous chemical substance. True, homosexual love was frowned upon in the Middle Ages, but with a wink and a sly grin, I can assure you. Oh, the hypocrisy of all your new religions! It only makes the forbidden more exciting. And purposely so, I sometimes think. After all, you cannot sell absolution without some sin for which to be pardoned!"

"Yeah, I don't think so," Lukas replied, face twisted up in disgust. "It's just… It's unnatural!"

"Unnatural? Our species has enjoyed such pleasures from time immemorial. How can you condemn it as unnatural? How can love and pleasure be in any way unnatural? It is your modern death cults that I find unnatural. They remind me of the Egyptians, so obsessed are they with the end of life. Your people revere violence and oppression and war. You glory in the murder of countless billions, both in your mass media—what you call 'entertainment'-- and in reality. No, your culture is the unnatural one, and your disgust is merely the product of a demented philosophy. You wring your hands about sex while children starve and men slaughter one another by the millions!"