Talk:Annabelle Parsons/@comment-27818075-20180812134141/@comment-3452092-20180827214651

I think during the Roman Empire it might have been pretty common and not scadalous either at least within the empire, but I could be wrong on that. . . or do you mean England. . . because I don't know of any time period where that might have been common at least in the "we aren't going to kill you" definition of the word. It might have been more common that we know, but I'm pretty sure it was not out in the open, not during that time period at least. I don't know much about England on any topic if you go a couple centuries back. And I know at least some of the time periods, Regency I think included, it was punishable by death, so openly being romantically involved with a person of the same gender wasn't happening. I could be off on the time period for that, but I'm pretty sure the Regency was part of that.

On top of that I'm 90% sure that Madeleine's creepy ancestor was implying that it was a well known guess that Bartholomew has a preference for men. I could be reading it wrong, but I'm pretty sure that is what the implication is and then I'm pretty sure Bartholomew was open with the idea that maybe he now has a new crush. If I am right about the punishment for that during that time period (which again, I might not be), he would not be that easy on that topic with a woman he just met.