World's Oldest Petroglyphs Show Bisexuality

Barely written about, some of the earliest artwork in Asia shows some super queer happenings.

BY DIANE ANDERSON-MINSHALL

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A copy of the Kangjiashimenji Petroglyphs, surprisingly queer artwork from 1000 B.C. (or earlier).

A new report from Mary Mycio inSlate/Huffington Post shows that the Kangjiashimenji Petroglyphs, bas-relief carvings in a massive red-basalt outcropping in the remote Xinjiang region of northwest China, show “the earliest—and some of the most graphic—depictions of copulation in the world.” And they show that bisexuality was common even then. Mycio writes that Chinese archeologist Wang Binghua discovered the petroglyphs in the late 1980s, but little has been written about them. 

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    Argh this is pissing me off. What the actual fuck, Advocate and HuffPo? HuffPo article is also making me uncomfortable...
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    here’s a taste: “One male seems to have his arm around another while a loner near the bottom seems to be masturbating as...
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