Were people of the past "us in different clothes?" The recent questions about geeks and anal sex raised the question but I'm not sure they answered it.

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Can you link what recent question you are talking about?

But the short answer is no. The longer answer, well, we have a roundtable coming up soon where we will discuss how you can't psychologize the past. Specifically, what I'm thinking of is sexuality. You can't take modern terms invented in the 1800s and project them into the past-- for example, you can't argue that Alexander the Great was a homosexual because no concept of homosexuality or sexual roles existed in his time.