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In The New Testament on Sexuality, William Loader explores the relevant cultural contexts and looks at New Testament texts related to sexuality, highlighting both the warnings about sexual wrongdoing and the affirmations of sexual union. He deals with specific themes such as divorce, same-sex relations, women and men in leadership, and celibacy; individual behavior, gender roles and rules,...

probably uses the two terms with reference to men who engage in same-sex behaviour, with the first referring to the willing passive partner, whether by private consent or as a male prostitute, “those who submit to sexual penetration by other men”, and the second referring to “those who engage in sexual penetration of other men”, which would have a broader reference and include, but not be limited to,175 exploitation, also by force.176 Elliott suggests translators should be satisfied with “soft males” (perhaps
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