Flutterby™! :

Frank passed along this note on Judaism's Sexual Revolution: Why Judaism (and then Christanity) Rejected Homosexuality. The viewpoint that it's written with is frightening, not surprising given that the article is hosted at the Catholic Educator's Resource Center, but it does give some pointers to places to do more research, I'd actually been under the impression that many of the things they believe still existed to the middle of this century went out of style a few centuries ago, and the article sins by omission, husbands and priestesses as well...:

"In India until this century, certain Hindu cults have required intercourse between monks and nuns, and wives would have intercourse with priests who represent the god. Until it was made illegal in 1948, when India gained independence, Hindu temples in many parts of India had both women and boy prostitutes."