Editing Jewish views on homosexuality (section)

==== Reasons for the prohibition ====

Reasons suggested by the rabbis for the prohibition on gay male sex include the following:
* The rationale for abstaining homosexuality extends beyond not emulating the [[Canaanites]]<ref>cf. Babylonian Talmud Yoma 67b</ref>
* It is considered a defiance of [[Sex organ|sexual anatomy]], which is unlike God's intention of procreation and sexual activity<ref name=re>
{{Citation|last=Eisenberg|first=Ronald|year= 2005|title=The 613 Mitzvot: A Contemporary Guide to the Commandments of Judaism |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=maeV2EG_eZMC|publisher=Schreiber Publishing|isbn=0-88400-303-5|page=325}}; a similar list appears in {{Citation|last=Lamm|first=Maurice|date=1991|title=The Jewish Way in Love and Marriage|publisher=Jonathan David Publishers, Inc.|isbn=0-8246-0353-2}}</ref>
* The [[sexual arousal]] involved results in a vain emission of [[semen]]<ref name=re/>
* It may lead a man to abandon his family to pursue a homosexual relationship<ref>[[Tosafot]], the [[Asher ben Jehiel|Rosh]] and the [[Nissim of Gerona|Ran]]</ref><ref name=roth1/><ref name=re/>
* It is non-[[Reproduction|procreative]]<ref>''Pesikta Zutrasa''; [[Nachmanides]]; ''[[Sefer Hachinuch]]''</ref><ref name=roth1>Rabbi Joel Roth. [https://www.rabbinicalassembly.org/sites/default/files/assets/public/halakhah/teshuvot/19912000/roth_homosexual.pdf Homosexuality] ''rabbinicalassembly.org'' 1992.</ref>
* It blurs the lines between masculinity and femininity<ref name=":1" />