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I get it. I had meant 'modern' more than anything and 'english' was the convenient assumption.
I was trying note along the idea of how we only know Spartan history from Athenian accounts of Sparta, not Spartans. If all we had was specifically a christian interpretation of the texts then yeah, conclusions can be as varied as the reader. If we interpret the bible through contemporary historical observations the importance of the lessons and stories of the bible are provided context.
The christian traditions around the bible and the historical context through which the bible was written and interpreted are very different.
But that isn't to undermine or remove the fact that there is a long tradition of interpreting these passages as to include masturbation. (If not the concept of sodomy at large.) But to me that's likewise as understandably contexualized.