Peer Homosexuality

Abstract

There is no good reason to think that Greek adolescent boys were any less randy and sexual than their modern counterparts. There actually were some adultmen, whether in Attica or Italy, who preferred other men rather than adolescent boys. Queer as they might be in the Athenian context, such men surely existed and were the focus of at least one Athenian painter's study. Unlike most Greek states, Rome never idealized or even sanctioned homosexual relations with a freeborn youth, but generally condoned them with male slaves, who were in many cases boys, but in other cases were adults. Love between women should not necessarily be assumed to follow the male pederastic model. Under the Roman Empire, Lucian speaks of two wealthy women who live together as if they were man and wife; the distinction between them is clearly not based on age but a butch/femme dyad.

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