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Pederasty in ancient Greece was a socially acknowledged romantic relationship between an older male (the erastes) and a younger male (the eromenos) usually in his teens. [ 2 ] It was characteristic of the Archaic and Classical periods. [ 3 ]
The most common form of same-sex relationships between elite males in Greece was paiderastia (pederasty). It was a relationship between an older male and an adolescent youth. A boy was considered a "boy" until he was able to grow a full beard. In Athens the older man was called erastes.
Pederasty or paederasty (/ ˈpɛdəræsti /) is a sexual relationship between an adult man and a boy. It was a socially acknowledged practice in Ancient Greece and Rome and elsewhere in the world, such as Pre-Meiji Japan. In most countries today, the local age of consent determines whether a person is considered legally competent to consent to ...
The North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA, stylized as NAMbLA) is a pedophilia and pederasty advocacy organization in the United States. It works to abolish age-of-consent laws criminalizing adult sexual involvement with minors [2] [3] and campaigns for the release of men who have been jailed for sexual contacts with minors that did not involve what it considers coercion.
The book contains some 200 pictures of boys through the ages, and is a history of boys in Western art and classical mythology. [2] [10] [11] This includes an analysis of Classical, Neoclassical, and Renaissance art. [12] Pictures and discussions range from Cupid to Elvis, Boy George, Kurt Cobain, and Jim Morrison. [2]
Homosexuality in ancient Rome often differs markedly from the contemporary West. Latin lacks words that would precisely translate " homosexual " and " heterosexual ". [ 1 ] The primary dichotomy of ancient Roman sexuality was active / dominant / masculine and passive / submissive / feminine. Roman society was patriarchal, and the freeborn male ...
Bacha bāzī (Persian: بچه بازی, lit. 'boy play') [1] is a practice in which men (sometimes called bacha baz) buy and keep adolescent boys, or dancing boys, for entertainment and sex. [2][3] Pederasty is a custom in Afghanistan and often involves sexual slavery and child prostitution by older men of young adolescent males. [4][citation ...
Chicken Hawk: Men Who Love Boys (also known as simply Chickenhawk) is a 1994 American documentary film produced, written and directed by Adi Sideman, who founded YouNow in 2011. The film profiles members of the pedophile / pederasty organization North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) who discuss sexual relationships between men and ...