Originally posted by Agathon
How well do you understand Greek homosexuality? Trust me, most Greeks would find currently acceptable practices in the gay community to be disgusting and effeminate.
Being a catamite was viewed by Greeks as one of the most shameful things a man could ever do (a prejudice that Plato has Socrates take advantage of in the Gorgias.
It amuses me that anyone would want to claim anything good about Greek homosexuality, since most of it was paedophilic.
How well do you understand Greek homosexuality? Trust me, most Greeks would find currently acceptable practices in the gay community to be disgusting and effeminate.
Being a catamite was viewed by Greeks as one of the most shameful things a man could ever do (a prejudice that Plato has Socrates take advantage of in the Gorgias.
It amuses me that anyone would want to claim anything good about Greek homosexuality, since most of it was paedophilic.
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