Robert Porter

“For Ambrose and the Christians of his generation, women were considered to be lower than slaves—something Ambrose claimed—and sexual intercourse with women was believed to be a contaminating process ultimately devised by the devil. Therefore, the prospect of sex with a virginal, sexually hermaphroditic boy was not only in step with the hugely popular cults of Cybele and Dionysus, but in a Christian theological sense it was perfectly pure and spiritually justifiable. In fact, the proposition of sex with the Jesus lady-boy also supported the assertions of generations of monks, priests and Church fathers who upheld the idea that a virginal, sexually undifferentiated, prepubertal child was the ideal sexual partner.”
― David C.A. Hillman, Original Sin: Sex, Drugs, and the Church

“Priests manipulated prevailing sexual mores when they forced young converts to renounce the pleasures of male-female intercourse. The ritual was detailed, brutal, and consistent. Child rape was an institutional policy that embraced both Catholic theology and the Christian drive to transform the cultural makeup of the Roman Empire.”
― David C.A. Hillman, Original Sin: Sex, Drugs, and the Church

“Tertullian wrote in Apologeticus about the belief that Christians possessed a fiery breath that was able to send demons out of the bodies of the possessed; he says that demons flee the touch of Christians or their breath. This fits the historical context well when we consider that Cyril of Jerusalem, one of the greatest advocates of ritual sodomy, wrote in Procatachesis and Mystagogical Catechesis about the process of breathing or blowing upon young, nude, oiled boys: “Be earnest in submitting to the exorcisms. If you are blown upon and exorcised, the process brings you to salvation.”
― David C.A. Hillman, Original Sin: Sex, Drugs, and the Church

“A description of a man-god savior with female reproductive organs and breasts may be disturbing to a modern audience, but the pagan world, which at the time was still a large percentage of the population, would have quickly recognized their own hermaphroditic, nurturing divinities in the person of Jesus the virginal lady-boy.”
― David C.A. Hillman, Original Sin: Sex, Drugs, and the Church