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The Story of Alexander the Great started with an argument about bussy
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Is it really dramatic? Then just put it in the main feed.
Is it chuddy? (Be honest.) Then /h/chudrama.
Is it from back in old boomer times or before?
This is the place for it.
Feel free to talk about history here at
whatever level of seriousness you feel like.
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This your first time reading stories from the Greco-Roman period?
99% of all historical accounts, myths and tragedies start with an argument about bussy.
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The problem is, history was written by people very similar to use. Like Suetonius' Lives of the Twelve Caesars. Constant unfounded accusations that guys are male feminists, libertarians, porn enthusiasts (this was considered incredibly perverted when paper was so expensive), drunk and high all the time, etc. Caligula was the original lolcow.
While they certainly knew what a catamite was (they did invent the word) there's very few mentions of gay stuff in what I've read. Off the top of my head: Herodotus said the Cretans ran out of land so to control their population they started molesting boys, Xenophon mentions his men going after women and boys. The stuff about everybody being gay seems to originate c. 1st Century at least and was really blown out of proportion by the queers who ran the classics departments in English colleges.
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Then I'm not sure what you're reading, but you sound like a wannabe intellectual.
Men starting dating boys and singing to them outside their windows before they reached puberty and there's tons of source material and long boring butt poems written about it.
Pliny the Elder even complains about one of the senators spending all day fricking boys instead of doing his fricking job.
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That's just untrue.
There was no concept of "libertarianism" (pederasty was "consensual") just as there was no concept of "heterosexual" or "homosexual".
Pliny wasn't upset the guy was fricking boys, he was upset he wasn't doing his job.
The only thing you got called out for was bottoming as a grown man (see: after puberty) with the slur cinaedus.
Basically being called a pervert like Julius Caesar famously was called, cause he was
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No, but I didn't know about this specific instance.
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