1101 BCE – The Code of Assura from either the Old Assyrian Empire or the Middle Assyrian Empire prescribes the following on male rape: 1761 BCE – During the reign of King Zimri-Lim of the Kingdom of Mari, he is recorded to have male lovers.
In Neolithic Italy, female images are found in a domestic context, while images that combine sexual characteristics appear in burials or religious settings. 1700 BCE – Among the sexual depictions in Neolithic and Bronze Age drawings and figurines from the Mediterranean area, as one author describes it, a " third sex" human figure having female breasts and male genitals or without distinguishing sex characteristics. Ĩth millennium BCE – 2nd millennium BCE 70th century BCE – 17th century BCE The gender of both individuals in the sculpture is unknown. 9000 BCE – The Ain Sakhri lovers is sculpted, the oldest known representation of two persons engaging in sexual intercourse. 5,000 BCE – Mesolithic rock art in Sicily depicts phallic male figures in pairs that have been interpreted variously, including as hunters, acrobats, religious initiates, and depictions of male homosexual intercourse.