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It was thought a man would fight all the harder for the man he loves, especially if they go to battle side by side. He would take a wife and stay in touch with his mentor through friendship. According to the proponents of this theory, pederasty came to being on the Dorian island Crete , where grown-up men used to kidnap consenting adolescents. In antiquity, pederasty was seen as an educational institution for the inculcation of moral and cultural values in some cultures, [11] as well as a form of sexual expression. Most remarkable of all, it also gives rise to a reciprocation of sexual desire on the part of the younger man who, taking note of the unparalleled generosity of his lover, finds himself suffused with a stream of desire from "the source of that stream that Zeus, in love with Ganymede, called 'passionate longing. Women were expected to be contained to the house and to do all the house work. Juan de Torquemada mentions that if the younger boy was seduced by a stranger, the penalty was equivalent to that for adultery. Aristophanes then describes the latter as being such as prefer their own gender, in which he includes lesbianism, and all of which the pagan philosopher commends.

All articles with dead external links Articles with dead external links from December Articles with permanently dead external links All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from August Articles with unsourced statements from July Commons category link is on Wikidata. Hammond, A history of Greece to BC, ; p. In parts of Greece, pederasty was an acceptable form of homoeroticism that had other, less socially accepted manifestations, such as the sexual use of slaves or being a pornos prostitute or hetairos the male equivalent of a hetaira. Sappho is thought to have written close to 12, lines of poetry on her love for other women.