Originally Posted by
TheOldNorth
Have you considered the main sources that we have of the gauls were when they were in a time of great desperation, also Romans tended to exaggerate such practices and their frequency as a form of propaganda or simple bias. The Romans also said that the gauls had sword that always bent on impact, and yet science has proven them wrong. They also accused the gauls of 'liking their own men more than their women' as a form of propaganda as well (because in roman society, being penetrated was a sign of emasculation) to say "We are real men, they aren't"
It's clear to me that a society like theirs wouldn't have even worked if they sacrificed, and had as many gay relations as the Romans state, just as they wouldn't have almost conquered Rome itself with sword that are constantly bending.
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