ABSTRACT
Male-male sexuality came to be the preferred emotional attachment among warriors. The fact that the symbols of imperial authority—swords, mirrors, and gems—have been found in abundance in the burial sites of northern Kyushu would tend to uphold the Kyushu theory. The native religious cults of ancient Japan had no formalized theological or philosophical interpretation concerning the afterlife; apparently, it was believed that after death one went to the land of darkness, where everything was polluted. Sexual relations between genders in the early period are casual at best. Marriage usually consisted of the new "husband" staying over for breakfast after the third tryst, thus declaring his intent to become part of the family. In the discussion of gender and sexual relations, extramarital sexual expression, involving all genders, was considerably freer of social moral control than in the West that is consider normal.
