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Two separate sections of the Bible describe a male visitor(s) arriving to a town late at night, and being beseiged in a house by mob of rapists demanding to violate them, and the owners offering their own daughters instead. How often a problem was this in the Levant and would it play out like that?

by /u/Lamujereenrojo in /r/AskHistorians

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