The post doesn't really resonate with me, but I believe they are trying to say something along the lines of "people in these times and places were only exposed to the concept of homosexuality in their communities in cases where a child molester was exposed, since that would be 'big news'".
To me, that doesn't sound right, but I don't know enough about what was going on to know how the average worker viewed homosexuality. If anything yeah it's poorly worded because you don't want to sound like you are conflating sexual orientation with pedophilia, and if it's unclear to anyone (you and everyone who upvoted you), then that should be rephrased or omitted.
That was indeed what I was getting at. And I specifically mentioned it because a lot of Russians have told me that the russian word for homosexual comes from the greek "Pederast", and especially in tzarist Russia there would not have been widespread knowledge of human sexuality, due to Russia being a feudal shit-state. And when I mentioned the pedophilia in the post, I was refering to the reasoning given by Stalin and the soviets when they recriminalized it sometime in the 20's.
The post doesn't really resonate with me, but I believe they are trying to say something along the lines of "people in these times and places were only exposed to the concept of homosexuality in their communities in cases where a child molester was exposed, since that would be 'big news'".
To me, that doesn't sound right, but I don't know enough about what was going on to know how the average worker viewed homosexuality. If anything yeah it's poorly worded because you don't want to sound like you are conflating sexual orientation with pedophilia, and if it's unclear to anyone (you and everyone who upvoted you), then that should be rephrased or omitted.
That was indeed what I was getting at. And I specifically mentioned it because a lot of Russians have told me that the russian word for homosexual comes from the greek "Pederast", and especially in tzarist Russia there would not have been widespread knowledge of human sexuality, due to Russia being a feudal shit-state. And when I mentioned the pedophilia in the post, I was refering to the reasoning given by Stalin and the soviets when they recriminalized it sometime in the 20's.