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</table>Jim Burtonhttps://wiki.yesmap.net/wiki/index.php?title=Pederasty&diff=33733&oldid=prevJim Burton at 19:43, 30 January 20262026-01-30T19:43:43Z<p></p>
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</table>Jim Burtonhttps://wiki.yesmap.net/wiki/index.php?title=Pederasty&diff=33037&oldid=prevPrue at 22:31, 18 October 20252025-10-18T22:31:39Z<p></p>
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</table>Pruehttps://wiki.yesmap.net/wiki/index.php?title=Pederasty&diff=33036&oldid=prevPrue at 22:28, 18 October 20252025-10-18T22:28:20Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>An important note is that one did not need to have been primarily [[Pedophilia|pedophilic]] in orientation to practice pederasty. Not only did the term [[pedophilia]] not exist until the 20th century, and only came into widespread use during the 1970s and 80s,<ref>Basannavar, Nicholas Ranjan Gadsby. (2019). [https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/40384/1/FINAL%20SUBMISSION%20-%20Nick%20Basannavar.pdf Speaking about speaking about child sexual abuse in Britain, 1965-1991]. [Thesis].</ref> but pederastic culture and relationships typically involved pubescent or post-pubescent young people, not pre-pubescent children as with pedophiles. More recent categories of [[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">https://wiki.yesmap.net/wiki/</del>Chronophilia]] would classify pederasty as [[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">hebephilia</del>]] and [[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">ephebephilia</del>]], the latter of which takes its name from the term "''Ephebe''" - a word commonly found in classic pederastic writings. In Ancient Greece, man/boy relationships were a cultural mainstay, practiced by the majority of upper class adult males at the time. Throughout history, pederasty was an accepted sexual norm in times and places as diverse as Ancient Celts,<ref>Naucrati's Athenaeum in the Deipnosophistsai (XIII, 603a) states that the Celtic people, despite the extreme beauty of their women, far prefer boys: some regularly slept on their animal skins with an adolescent lover to their right and another on their left side, although some interpret it instead as “they had a handsome boy on one side and a woman on the other” (Hubbard, 2003, p. 79). Other authors also attest to Celtic pederasty, including Aristotle (Politics, II 6.6), Strabo (IV, 4, 6) and Diodorus Siculus (V, 32).</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>An important note is that one did not need to have been primarily [[Pedophilia|pedophilic]] in orientation to practice pederasty. Not only did the term [[pedophilia]] not exist until the 20th century, and only came into widespread use during the 1970s and 80s,<ref>Basannavar, Nicholas Ranjan Gadsby. (2019). [https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/40384/1/FINAL%20SUBMISSION%20-%20Nick%20Basannavar.pdf Speaking about speaking about child sexual abuse in Britain, 1965-1991]. [Thesis].</ref> but pederastic culture and relationships typically involved pubescent or post-pubescent young people, not pre-pubescent children as with pedophiles. More recent categories of [[Chronophilia]] would classify pederasty as [[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Hebephilia</ins>]] and [[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Ephebophilia</ins>]], the latter of which takes its name from the term "''Ephebe''" - a word commonly found in classic pederastic writings. In Ancient Greece, man/boy relationships were a cultural mainstay, practiced by the majority of upper class adult males at the time. Throughout history, pederasty was an accepted sexual norm in times and places as diverse as Ancient Celts,<ref>Naucrati's Athenaeum in the Deipnosophistsai (XIII, 603a) states that the Celtic people, despite the extreme beauty of their women, far prefer boys: some regularly slept on their animal skins with an adolescent lover to their right and another on their left side, although some interpret it instead as “they had a handsome boy on one side and a woman on the other” (Hubbard, 2003, p. 79). Other authors also attest to Celtic pederasty, including Aristotle (Politics, II 6.6), Strabo (IV, 4, 6) and Diodorus Siculus (V, 32).</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Sibylline Oracles say that only the Jews were free from such an impurity: "The Jews are aware of the sacred marriage bond, they do not engage in unholy relations with their sons, as do the Phoenicians, the Egyptians and the Romans, the Greeks, the Persians and the Galatians, who transgress the holy law of the immortal God"</ref> Imperial Russia,<ref>''Mediaeval Russia was known for its benevolent tolerance of homosexuality and its widespread spread within society, and pederasty was also very common: the beardless young man was seen as a viable alternative to women and cutting his beard was intended for men as an explicit request to enter into a relationship. [...] Banyas, traditional bathhouses-saunas, in particular, were the favourite places where men went to have sex with teenage boys, especially those who worked inside them as attendants.'' Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20150203020828/http://english.gay.ru/life/history/queermoscow/1600-1861TraditionalMasculinitiesAndLoveBetweenMen.html</ref> Medieval Korea,<ref>Paul Michaut, a French doctor, wrote in 1893 that the Korea he has just arrived is a country where "pederasty is generalised, it is part of the customs. It is practised publicly, on the street, without the slightest reprobation" Source: Proschan, Frank "Syphilis, Opiomania, and Pederasty": Colonial Constructions of Vietnamese (and French) Social Diseases, in ''Journal of the History of Sexuality'' — Volume 11, Number 4, October 2002, pp. 610–636.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Sibylline Oracles say that only the Jews were free from such an impurity: "The Jews are aware of the sacred marriage bond, they do not engage in unholy relations with their sons, as do the Phoenicians, the Egyptians and the Romans, the Greeks, the Persians and the Galatians, who transgress the holy law of the immortal God"</ref> Imperial Russia,<ref>''Mediaeval Russia was known for its benevolent tolerance of homosexuality and its widespread spread within society, and pederasty was also very common: the beardless young man was seen as a viable alternative to women and cutting his beard was intended for men as an explicit request to enter into a relationship. [...] Banyas, traditional bathhouses-saunas, in particular, were the favourite places where men went to have sex with teenage boys, especially those who worked inside them as attendants.'' Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20150203020828/http://english.gay.ru/life/history/queermoscow/1600-1861TraditionalMasculinitiesAndLoveBetweenMen.html</ref> Medieval Korea,<ref>Paul Michaut, a French doctor, wrote in 1893 that the Korea he has just arrived is a country where "pederasty is generalised, it is part of the customs. It is practised publicly, on the street, without the slightest reprobation" Source: Proschan, Frank "Syphilis, Opiomania, and Pederasty": Colonial Constructions of Vietnamese (and French) Social Diseases, in ''Journal of the History of Sexuality'' — Volume 11, Number 4, October 2002, pp. 610–636.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The theory and practice of pederasty was carried on into Roman times, and remained commonplace for centuries in varying forms. "According to [[Kadji Amin]]," wrote the historian [[Rachel Hope Cleves]], “modern pederasty,” which he defines as age-differentiated sex, was the dominant form of male same-sex practice until the mid-twentieth century."<ref>Rachel Hope Cleves, [https://annas-archive.org/md5/4fb01d8582cb462bf79d0cf28a43bf00 ''Unspeakable: A Life Beyond Sexual Morality''] (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020), p. 6.</ref> It has been argued that "pederasty was defeated by the invention of pedophilia",<ref>[[Roger Moody]], (1981). 'Man/boy love and the Left', in [[The_Age_Taboo|''The Age Taboo: Gay Male Sexuality, Power and Consent'']], ed. by Daniel Tsang (Alyson Publications: Boston, and Gay Men's Press: London), pp. 147-155 (p. 148).</ref> with Cleves arguing similarly that: "During the late 1980s and 1990s, the figure of the monstrous pedophile took center stage in the cultural imagination of English-speaking countries, entirely replacing the earlier ambivalent figure of the pederast. The pedophile, or child sexual predator, was the subject of sex crime panics on both sides of the Atlantic."<ref>(''Unspeakable'', 2020), p. 278.</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The theory and practice of pederasty was carried on into Roman times, and remained commonplace for centuries in varying forms. "According to [[Kadji Amin]]," wrote the historian [[Rachel Hope Cleves]], “modern pederasty,” which he defines as age-differentiated sex, was the dominant form of male same-sex practice until the mid-twentieth century."<ref>Rachel Hope Cleves, [https://annas-archive.org/md5/4fb01d8582cb462bf79d0cf28a43bf00 ''Unspeakable: A Life Beyond Sexual Morality''] (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020), p. 6.</ref> It has been argued that "pederasty was defeated by the invention of pedophilia",<ref>[[Roger Moody]], (1981). 'Man/boy love and the Left', in [[The_Age_Taboo|''The Age Taboo: Gay Male Sexuality, Power and Consent'']], ed. by Daniel Tsang (Alyson Publications: Boston, and Gay Men's Press: London), pp. 147-155 (p. 148).</ref> with Cleves arguing similarly that: "During the late 1980s and 1990s, the figure of the monstrous pedophile took center stage in the cultural imagination of English-speaking countries, entirely replacing the earlier ambivalent figure of the pederast. The pedophile, or child sexual predator, was the subject of sex crime panics on both sides of the Atlantic."<ref>(''Unspeakable'', 2020), p. 278.</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>An important note is that one did not need to have been primarily [[Pedophilia|pedophilic]] in orientation to practice pederasty. Not only did the term [[pedophilia]] not exist until the 20th century, and only <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">come </del>into widespread use during the 1970s and 80s,<ref>Basannavar, Nicholas Ranjan Gadsby. (2019). [https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/40384/1/FINAL%20SUBMISSION%20-%20Nick%20Basannavar.pdf Speaking about speaking about child sexual abuse in Britain, 1965-1991]. [Thesis].</ref> but pederastic culture and relationships typically involved pubescent or post-pubescent young people, not pre-pubescent children as with pedophiles. More recent categories of [[https://wiki.yesmap.net/wiki/Chronophilia]] would classify pederasty as [[hebephilia]] and [[ephebephilia]], the latter of which takes its name from the term "''Ephebe''" - a word commonly found in classic pederastic writings. In Ancient Greece, man/boy relationships were a cultural mainstay, practiced by the majority of upper class adult males at the time. Throughout history, pederasty was an accepted sexual norm in times and places as diverse as Ancient Celts,<ref>Naucrati's Athenaeum in the Deipnosophistsai (XIII, 603a) states that the Celtic people, despite the extreme beauty of their women, far prefer boys: some regularly slept on their animal skins with an adolescent lover to their right and another on their left side, although some interpret it instead as “they had a handsome boy on one side and a woman on the other” (Hubbard, 2003, p. 79). Other authors also attest to Celtic pederasty, including Aristotle (Politics, II 6.6), Strabo (IV, 4, 6) and Diodorus Siculus (V, 32).</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>An important note is that one did not need to have been primarily [[Pedophilia|pedophilic]] in orientation to practice pederasty. Not only did the term [[pedophilia]] not exist until the 20th century, and only <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">came </ins>into widespread use during the 1970s and 80s,<ref>Basannavar, Nicholas Ranjan Gadsby. (2019). [https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/40384/1/FINAL%20SUBMISSION%20-%20Nick%20Basannavar.pdf Speaking about speaking about child sexual abuse in Britain, 1965-1991]. [Thesis].</ref> but pederastic culture and relationships typically involved pubescent or post-pubescent young people, not pre-pubescent children as with pedophiles. More recent categories of [[https://wiki.yesmap.net/wiki/Chronophilia]] would classify pederasty as [[hebephilia]] and [[ephebephilia]], the latter of which takes its name from the term "''Ephebe''" - a word commonly found in classic pederastic writings. In Ancient Greece, man/boy relationships were a cultural mainstay, practiced by the majority of upper class adult males at the time. Throughout history, pederasty was an accepted sexual norm in times and places as diverse as Ancient Celts,<ref>Naucrati's Athenaeum in the Deipnosophistsai (XIII, 603a) states that the Celtic people, despite the extreme beauty of their women, far prefer boys: some regularly slept on their animal skins with an adolescent lover to their right and another on their left side, although some interpret it instead as “they had a handsome boy on one side and a woman on the other” (Hubbard, 2003, p. 79). Other authors also attest to Celtic pederasty, including Aristotle (Politics, II 6.6), Strabo (IV, 4, 6) and Diodorus Siculus (V, 32).</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Sibylline Oracles say that only the Jews were free from such an impurity: "The Jews are aware of the sacred marriage bond, they do not engage in unholy relations with their sons, as do the Phoenicians, the Egyptians and the Romans, the Greeks, the Persians and the Galatians, who transgress the holy law of the immortal God"</ref> Imperial Russia,<ref>''Mediaeval Russia was known for its benevolent tolerance of homosexuality and its widespread spread within society, and pederasty was also very common: the beardless young man was seen as a viable alternative to women and cutting his beard was intended for men as an explicit request to enter into a relationship. [...] Banyas, traditional bathhouses-saunas, in particular, were the favourite places where men went to have sex with teenage boys, especially those who worked inside them as attendants.'' Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20150203020828/http://english.gay.ru/life/history/queermoscow/1600-1861TraditionalMasculinitiesAndLoveBetweenMen.html</ref> Medieval Korea,<ref>Paul Michaut, a French doctor, wrote in 1893 that the Korea he has just arrived is a country where "pederasty is generalised, it is part of the customs. It is practised publicly, on the street, without the slightest reprobation" Source: Proschan, Frank "Syphilis, Opiomania, and Pederasty": Colonial Constructions of Vietnamese (and French) Social Diseases, in ''Journal of the History of Sexuality'' — Volume 11, Number 4, October 2002, pp. 610–636.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Sibylline Oracles say that only the Jews were free from such an impurity: "The Jews are aware of the sacred marriage bond, they do not engage in unholy relations with their sons, as do the Phoenicians, the Egyptians and the Romans, the Greeks, the Persians and the Galatians, who transgress the holy law of the immortal God"</ref> Imperial Russia,<ref>''Mediaeval Russia was known for its benevolent tolerance of homosexuality and its widespread spread within society, and pederasty was also very common: the beardless young man was seen as a viable alternative to women and cutting his beard was intended for men as an explicit request to enter into a relationship. [...] Banyas, traditional bathhouses-saunas, in particular, were the favourite places where men went to have sex with teenage boys, especially those who worked inside them as attendants.'' Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20150203020828/http://english.gay.ru/life/history/queermoscow/1600-1861TraditionalMasculinitiesAndLoveBetweenMen.html</ref> Medieval Korea,<ref>Paul Michaut, a French doctor, wrote in 1893 that the Korea he has just arrived is a country where "pederasty is generalised, it is part of the customs. It is practised publicly, on the street, without the slightest reprobation" Source: Proschan, Frank "Syphilis, Opiomania, and Pederasty": Colonial Constructions of Vietnamese (and French) Social Diseases, in ''Journal of the History of Sexuality'' — Volume 11, Number 4, October 2002, pp. 610–636.</div></td></tr>
</table>Pruehttps://wiki.yesmap.net/wiki/index.php?title=Pederasty&diff=33034&oldid=prevPrue: /* History */2025-10-18T22:26:27Z<p><span class="autocomment">History</span></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The original form of pederasty was a culturally sanctioned relationship in Ancient Greece in which a mentor and a pupil would be bonded into a relationship of mutual love, in which the erotic attraction of the [[boy]] was an important factor. The custom was commonplace in most Greek cities of the time, when intergenerational man/boy relationships were employed to benefit the community. The relationships were valued for giving rise to strong friendships which were thought valuable to democracies in particular. They were also highly valued for the educational benefits to the youth, and also for their positive effect on the problem of overpopulation, which was keenly felt in many cities at that time. The custom was reflected in several popular myths and legends, most notably that of Zeus and Ganymede. Greek society had sexual values which allowed pederasty to proliferate, such as the veneration of small over large penises, and admiration for the toned male physique lacking in visible fat.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The original form of pederasty was a culturally sanctioned relationship in Ancient Greece in which a mentor and a pupil would be bonded into a relationship of mutual love, in which the erotic attraction of the [[boy]] was an important factor. The custom was commonplace in most Greek cities of the time, when intergenerational man/boy relationships were employed to benefit the community. The relationships were valued for giving rise to strong friendships which were thought valuable to democracies in particular. They were also highly valued for the educational benefits to the youth, and also for their positive effect on the problem of overpopulation, which was keenly felt in many cities at that time. The custom was reflected in several popular myths and legends, most notably that of Zeus and Ganymede. Greek society had sexual values which allowed pederasty to proliferate, such as the veneration of small over large penises, and admiration for the toned male physique lacking in visible fat.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The theory and practice of pederasty was carried on into Roman times, and remained commonplace for centuries in varying forms. "According to [[Kadji Amin]]," wrote the historian [[Rachel Hope Cleves]], “modern pederasty,” which he defines as age-differentiated sex, was the dominant form of male same-sex practice until the mid-twentieth century."<ref>Rachel Hope Cleves, [https://annas-archive.org/md5/4fb01d8582cb462bf79d0cf28a43bf00 ''Unspeakable: A Life Beyond Sexual Morality''] (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020), p. 6.</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The theory and practice of pederasty was carried on into Roman times, and remained commonplace for centuries in varying forms. "According to [[Kadji Amin]]," wrote the historian [[Rachel Hope Cleves]], “modern pederasty,” which he defines as age-differentiated sex, was the dominant form of male same-sex practice until the mid-twentieth century."<ref>Rachel Hope Cleves, [https://annas-archive.org/md5/4fb01d8582cb462bf79d0cf28a43bf00 ''Unspeakable: A Life Beyond Sexual Morality''] (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020), p. 6<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">.</ref> It has been argued that "pederasty was defeated by the invention of pedophilia",<ref>[[Roger Moody]], (1981). 'Man/boy love and the Left', in [[The_Age_Taboo|''The Age Taboo: Gay Male Sexuality, Power and Consent'']], ed. by Daniel Tsang (Alyson Publications: Boston, and Gay Men's Press: London), pp. 147-155 (p. 148).</ref> with Cleves arguing similarly that: "During the late 1980s and 1990s, the figure of the monstrous pedophile took center stage in the cultural imagination of English-speaking countries, entirely replacing the earlier ambivalent figure of the pederast. The pedophile, or child sexual predator, was the subject of sex crime panics on both sides of the Atlantic."<ref>(''Unspeakable'', 2020), p. 278</ins>.</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>An important note is that one did not need to have been primarily [[Pedophilia|pedophilic]] in orientation to practice pederasty. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Since </del>man/boy relationships were a cultural mainstay, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">they were </del>practiced by the majority of upper class adult males <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">in Ancient Greece</del>. Throughout history, pederasty was an accepted sexual norm in times and places as diverse as Ancient Celts,<ref>Naucrati's Athenaeum in the Deipnosophistsai (XIII, 603a) states that the Celtic people, despite the extreme beauty of their women, far prefer boys: some regularly slept on their animal skins with an adolescent lover to their right and another on their left side, although some interpret it instead as “they had a handsome boy on one side and a woman on the other” (Hubbard, 2003, p. 79). Other authors also attest to Celtic pederasty, including Aristotle (Politics, II 6.6), Strabo (IV, 4, 6) and Diodorus Siculus (V, 32).</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>An important note is that one did not need to have been primarily [[Pedophilia|pedophilic]] in orientation to practice pederasty. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Not only did the term [[pedophilia]] not exist until the 20th century, and only come into widespread use during the 1970s and 80s,<ref>Basannavar, Nicholas Ranjan Gadsby. (2019). [https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/40384/1/FINAL%20SUBMISSION%20-%20Nick%20Basannavar.pdf Speaking about speaking about child sexual abuse in Britain, 1965-1991]. [Thesis].</ref> but pederastic culture and relationships typically involved pubescent or post-pubescent young people, not pre-pubescent children as with pedophiles. More recent categories of [[https://wiki.yesmap.net/wiki/Chronophilia]] would classify pederasty as [[hebephilia]] and [[ephebephilia]], the latter of which takes its name from the term "''Ephebe''" - a word commonly found in classic pederastic writings. In Ancient Greece, </ins>man/boy relationships were a cultural mainstay, practiced by the majority of upper class adult males <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">at the time</ins>. Throughout history, pederasty was an accepted sexual norm in times and places as diverse as Ancient Celts,<ref>Naucrati's Athenaeum in the Deipnosophistsai (XIII, 603a) states that the Celtic people, despite the extreme beauty of their women, far prefer boys: some regularly slept on their animal skins with an adolescent lover to their right and another on their left side, although some interpret it instead as “they had a handsome boy on one side and a woman on the other” (Hubbard, 2003, p. 79). Other authors also attest to Celtic pederasty, including Aristotle (Politics, II 6.6), Strabo (IV, 4, 6) and Diodorus Siculus (V, 32).</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The original form of pederasty was a culturally sanctioned relationship in Ancient Greece in which a mentor and a pupil would be bonded into a relationship of mutual love, in which the erotic attraction of the [[boy]] was an important factor. The custom was commonplace in most Greek cities of the time, when intergenerational man/boy relationships were employed to benefit the community. The relationships were valued for giving rise to strong friendships which were thought valuable to democracies in particular. They were also highly valued for the educational benefits to the youth, and also for their positive effect on the problem of overpopulation, which was keenly felt in many cities at that time. The custom was reflected in several popular myths and legends, most notably that of Zeus and Ganymede.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The original form of pederasty was a culturally sanctioned relationship in Ancient Greece in which a mentor and a pupil would be bonded into a relationship of mutual love, in which the erotic attraction of the [[boy]] was an important factor. The custom was commonplace in most Greek cities of the time, when intergenerational man/boy relationships were employed to benefit the community. The relationships were valued for giving rise to strong friendships which were thought valuable to democracies in particular. They were also highly valued for the educational benefits to the youth, and also for their positive effect on the problem of overpopulation, which was keenly felt in many cities at that time. The custom was reflected in several popular myths and legends, most notably that of Zeus and Ganymede<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. Greek society had sexual values which allowed pederasty to proliferate, such as the veneration of small over large penises, and admiration for the toned male physique lacking in visible fat</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The theory and practice of pederasty was carried on <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">even </del>into Roman times, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">until Christianity prevailed </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">even then was common place </del>for centuries in varying forms.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The theory and practice of pederasty was carried on into Roman times, and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">remained commonplace </ins>for centuries in varying forms. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"According to [[Kadji Amin]]," wrote the historian [[Rachel Hope Cleves]], “modern pederasty,” which he defines as age-differentiated sex, was the dominant form of male same-sex practice until the mid-twentieth century."<ref>Rachel Hope Cleves, [https://annas-archive.org/md5/4fb01d8582cb462bf79d0cf28a43bf00 ''Unspeakable: A Life Beyond Sexual Morality''] (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020), p. 6.</ref></ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>An important note is that one did not need to have been primarily pedophilic in orientation to practice pederasty. Since man/boy relationships were a cultural mainstay, they were practiced by the majority of upper class adult males in Ancient Greece. Throughout history, pederasty was an accepted sexual norm in times and places as diverse as Ancient Celts,<ref>Naucrati's Athenaeum in the Deipnosophistsai (XIII, 603a) states that the Celtic people, despite the extreme beauty of their women, far prefer boys: some regularly slept on their animal skins with an adolescent lover to their right and another on their left side, although some interpret it instead as “they had a handsome boy on one side and a woman on the other” (Hubbard, 2003, p. 79). Other authors also attest to Celtic pederasty, including Aristotle (Politics, II 6.6), Strabo (IV, 4, 6) and Diodorus Siculus (V, 32).</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>An important note is that one did not need to have been primarily <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Pedophilia|</ins>pedophilic<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]] </ins>in orientation to practice pederasty. Since man/boy relationships were a cultural mainstay, they were practiced by the majority of upper class adult males in Ancient Greece. Throughout history, pederasty was an accepted sexual norm in times and places as diverse as Ancient Celts,<ref>Naucrati's Athenaeum in the Deipnosophistsai (XIII, 603a) states that the Celtic people, despite the extreme beauty of their women, far prefer boys: some regularly slept on their animal skins with an adolescent lover to their right and another on their left side, although some interpret it instead as “they had a handsome boy on one side and a woman on the other” (Hubbard, 2003, p. 79). Other authors also attest to Celtic pederasty, including Aristotle (Politics, II 6.6), Strabo (IV, 4, 6) and Diodorus Siculus (V, 32).</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Sibylline Oracles say that only the Jews were free from such an impurity: "The Jews are aware of the sacred marriage bond, they do not engage in unholy relations with their sons, as do the Phoenicians, the Egyptians and the Romans, the Greeks, the Persians and the Galatians, who transgress the holy law of the immortal God"</ref> Imperial Russia,<ref>''Mediaeval Russia was known for its benevolent tolerance of homosexuality and its widespread spread within society, and pederasty was also very common: the beardless young man was seen as a viable alternative to women and cutting his beard was intended for men as an explicit request to enter into a relationship. [...] Banyas, traditional bathhouses-saunas, in particular, were the favourite places where men went to have sex with teenage boys, especially those who worked inside them as attendants.'' Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20150203020828/http://english.gay.ru/life/history/queermoscow/1600-1861TraditionalMasculinitiesAndLoveBetweenMen.html</ref> Medieval Korea,<ref>Paul Michaut, a French doctor, wrote in 1893 that the Korea he has just arrived is a country where "pederasty is generalised, it is part of the customs. It is practised publicly, on the street, without the slightest reprobation" Source: Proschan, Frank "Syphilis, Opiomania, and Pederasty": Colonial Constructions of Vietnamese (and French) Social Diseases, in ''Journal of the History of Sexuality'' — Volume 11, Number 4, October 2002, pp. 610–636.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Sibylline Oracles say that only the Jews were free from such an impurity: "The Jews are aware of the sacred marriage bond, they do not engage in unholy relations with their sons, as do the Phoenicians, the Egyptians and the Romans, the Greeks, the Persians and the Galatians, who transgress the holy law of the immortal God"</ref> Imperial Russia,<ref>''Mediaeval Russia was known for its benevolent tolerance of homosexuality and its widespread spread within society, and pederasty was also very common: the beardless young man was seen as a viable alternative to women and cutting his beard was intended for men as an explicit request to enter into a relationship. [...] Banyas, traditional bathhouses-saunas, in particular, were the favourite places where men went to have sex with teenage boys, especially those who worked inside them as attendants.'' Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20150203020828/http://english.gay.ru/life/history/queermoscow/1600-1861TraditionalMasculinitiesAndLoveBetweenMen.html</ref> Medieval Korea,<ref>Paul Michaut, a French doctor, wrote in 1893 that the Korea he has just arrived is a country where "pederasty is generalised, it is part of the customs. It is practised publicly, on the street, without the slightest reprobation" Source: Proschan, Frank "Syphilis, Opiomania, and Pederasty": Colonial Constructions of Vietnamese (and French) Social Diseases, in ''Journal of the History of Sexuality'' — Volume 11, Number 4, October 2002, pp. 610–636.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Then he continues: "at the age of puberty, between the ages of 10 and 15 he will be married to a rich man, who will hold his new partner in high regard and as an honourable achievement. These male concubines are called Achnutschik or Schopans. The same happens in the Aleutian Islands where male concubines always have a carefully shaved beard and the face is tattooed/putted-on-make-up like that of women. In California the first missionaries who arrived there found the same practice and the interested teenagers are called Joya here"</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Then he continues: "at the age of puberty, between the ages of 10 and 15 he will be married to a rich man, who will hold his new partner in high regard and as an honourable achievement. These male concubines are called Achnutschik or Schopans. The same happens in the Aleutian Islands where male concubines always have a carefully shaved beard and the face is tattooed/putted-on-make-up like that of women. In California the first missionaries who arrived there found the same practice and the interested teenagers are called Joya here"</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Source: (Bancroft, i. 415 and authorities Palon, Crespi, Boscana, Motras, Torquemada, Duflot and Fages). ([[Sir_Richard_Burton|Richard F. Burton]], Terminal Essay).</ref> and the South American Mayans.<ref>''For traditional Mayan culture, the introduction of pederasty is attributed to the god Chin; it was not so uncommon for a man to try to get a younger male lover of his son when he grew up left his father's house. The European Dominican friar Juan de Torquemada states, in his inquisitorial provisions that "if the youngest boy has been seduced by a stranger, the penalty to be imposed must be equivalent to that for adultery"; while the conquistador Bernal Díaz del Castillo claims to have seen inside the temples of Cape Catoche in Yucatán statues depicting young male couples engaged in conspicuous sexual acts"''. - Source: Pete Sigal, "The Politicization of Pederasty among the Colonial Yucatecan Maya" in ''Journal of the History of Sexuality'', Vol. 8, No. 1 (Jul., 1997), pp. 1-24. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/3704486 Journal link]. [https://sci-hub.zidianzhan.net/10.2307/3704486 Sci-hub link].</ref> Historians including Christian Laes,<ref>[https://www.christianlaes.be/ Christian Laes - Personal site]</ref><ref>[https://journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/oezg/article/view/3327 Laes, C. (2017). When Classicists Need to Speak Up: Antiquity and Present Day Pedophilia – Pederasty. ''Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften'', 28(3), 49–70].</ref><ref>Christian Laes, ''Children in the Roman Empire: Outsiders Within'' (Cambridge University Press, 2011).</ref><ref>; Christian Laes and Johan Strubbe, ''Youth in the Roman Empire: The Young and the Restless Years?'' (Cambridge University Press, 2014)</ref><ref>Christian Laes, 'Children and Sexuality: Roman World', in: Julia M. O'Brian (ed.), ''Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Gender Studies'' (Oxford University Press, 2014), 38–42.</ref> [[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">wikipedia:Andrew Lear|</del>Andrew Lear]],<ref>[https://library.lol/main/53872FCED674EC41DFC6B26B198D1F7F Eva Cantarella and Andrew Lear, ''Images of Pederasty: Boys Were Their God'' (Routledge, 2008)].</ref><ref>Andrew Lear, 'Was Pederasty Problematized? A Diachronic View', in: Mark Masterson/Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz/James Robson (eds.), ''Sex in Antiquity: Exploring Gender and Sexuality in the Ancient World'' (London/New York, 2015), pp. 115–136.</ref><ref>[https://library.lol/main/35E193AC1C1DADA75905ADD4DE8E0098 Andrew Lear, ''Noble Eros: the idealization of pederasty from the Greek dark ages to the Athens of Socrates'' (2004, PhD Thesis)].</ref> [[Thomas Hubbard]], Beert C. Verstraete,<ref>[https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2009/2009.09.61/ Beert Verstraete, Review of 'The Greeks and Greek Love: A Radical Reappraisal of Homosexuality in Ancient Greece', ''Bryn Mawr Classical Review'', 3. Nov. 2009].</ref> and [[William Percy]],<ref> William A. Percy III. [https://web.archive.org/web/20200926145823/http://www.williamapercy.com/wiki/images/Sexual_Revolution.pdf Sexual Revolution 600 B.C.- 400 A.D.: The Origins of Institutionalized Pederasty in Greece], in: Wayne R. Dynes (Ed.) [https://web.archive.org/web/20210127132148/http://williamapercy.com/wiki/index.php?title=Wayne_R._Dynes#Studies_in_Homosexuality Studies of Homosexuality], Vol 1: Ancient World, 1992</ref> have conducted extensive research on Greek Pederasty and the life of children / young people in Greco-Roman society.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Source: (Bancroft, i. 415 and authorities Palon, Crespi, Boscana, Motras, Torquemada, Duflot and Fages). ([[Sir_Richard_Burton|Richard F. Burton]], Terminal Essay).</ref> and the South American Mayans.<ref>''For traditional Mayan culture, the introduction of pederasty is attributed to the god Chin; it was not so uncommon for a man to try to get a younger male lover of his son when he grew up left his father's house. The European Dominican friar Juan de Torquemada states, in his inquisitorial provisions that "if the youngest boy has been seduced by a stranger, the penalty to be imposed must be equivalent to that for adultery"; while the conquistador Bernal Díaz del Castillo claims to have seen inside the temples of Cape Catoche in Yucatán statues depicting young male couples engaged in conspicuous sexual acts"''. - Source: Pete Sigal, "The Politicization of Pederasty among the Colonial Yucatecan Maya" in ''Journal of the History of Sexuality'', Vol. 8, No. 1 (Jul., 1997), pp. 1-24. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/3704486 Journal link]. [https://sci-hub.zidianzhan.net/10.2307/3704486 Sci-hub link].</ref> Historians including Christian Laes,<ref>[https://www.christianlaes.be/ Christian Laes - Personal site]</ref><ref>[https://journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/oezg/article/view/3327 Laes, C. (2017). When Classicists Need to Speak Up: Antiquity and Present Day Pedophilia – Pederasty. ''Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften'', 28(3), 49–70].</ref><ref>Christian Laes, ''Children in the Roman Empire: Outsiders Within'' (Cambridge University Press, 2011).</ref><ref>; Christian Laes and Johan Strubbe, ''Youth in the Roman Empire: The Young and the Restless Years?'' (Cambridge University Press, 2014)</ref><ref>Christian Laes, 'Children and Sexuality: Roman World', in: Julia M. O'Brian (ed.), ''Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Gender Studies'' (Oxford University Press, 2014), 38–42.</ref> [[Andrew Lear]],<ref>[https://library.lol/main/53872FCED674EC41DFC6B26B198D1F7F Eva Cantarella and Andrew Lear, ''Images of Pederasty: Boys Were Their God'' (Routledge, 2008)].</ref><ref>Andrew Lear, 'Was Pederasty Problematized? A Diachronic View', in: Mark Masterson/Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz/James Robson (eds.), ''Sex in Antiquity: Exploring Gender and Sexuality in the Ancient World'' (London/New York, 2015), pp. 115–136.</ref><ref>[https://library.lol/main/35E193AC1C1DADA75905ADD4DE8E0098 Andrew Lear, ''Noble Eros: the idealization of pederasty from the Greek dark ages to the Athens of Socrates'' (2004, PhD Thesis)].</ref> [[Thomas Hubbard]], Beert C. Verstraete,<ref>[https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2009/2009.09.61/ Beert Verstraete, Review of 'The Greeks and Greek Love: A Radical Reappraisal of Homosexuality in Ancient Greece', ''Bryn Mawr Classical Review'', 3. Nov. 2009].</ref> and [[William Percy]],<ref> William A. Percy III. [https://web.archive.org/web/20200926145823/http://www.williamapercy.com/wiki/images/Sexual_Revolution.pdf Sexual Revolution 600 B.C.- 400 A.D.: The Origins of Institutionalized Pederasty in Greece], in: Wayne R. Dynes (Ed.) [https://web.archive.org/web/20210127132148/http://williamapercy.com/wiki/index.php?title=Wayne_R._Dynes#Studies_in_Homosexuality Studies of Homosexuality], Vol 1: Ancient World, 1992</ref> have conducted extensive research on Greek Pederasty and the life of children / young people in Greco-Roman society.</div></td></tr>
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</table>Thornhttps://wiki.yesmap.net/wiki/index.php?title=Pederasty&diff=29703&oldid=prevThorn: /* History */2024-11-26T17:44:51Z<p><span class="autocomment">History</span></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Then he continues: "at the age of puberty, between the ages of 10 and 15 he will be married to a rich man, who will hold his new partner in high regard and as an honourable achievement. These male concubines are called Achnutschik or Schopans. The same happens in the Aleutian Islands where male concubines always have a carefully shaved beard and the face is tattooed/putted-on-make-up like that of women. In California the first missionaries who arrived there found the same practice and the interested teenagers are called Joya here"</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Then he continues: "at the age of puberty, between the ages of 10 and 15 he will be married to a rich man, who will hold his new partner in high regard and as an honourable achievement. These male concubines are called Achnutschik or Schopans. The same happens in the Aleutian Islands where male concubines always have a carefully shaved beard and the face is tattooed/putted-on-make-up like that of women. In California the first missionaries who arrived there found the same practice and the interested teenagers are called Joya here"</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Source: (Bancroft, i. 415 and authorities Palon, Crespi, Boscana, Motras, Torquemada, Duflot and Fages). ([[Sir_Richard_Burton|Richard F. Burton]], Terminal Essay).</ref> and the South American Mayans.<ref>''For traditional Mayan culture, the introduction of pederasty is attributed to the god Chin; it was not so uncommon for a man to try to get a younger male lover of his son when he grew up left his father's house. The European Dominican friar Juan de Torquemada states, in his inquisitorial provisions that "if the youngest boy has been seduced by a stranger, the penalty to be imposed must be equivalent to that for adultery"; while the conquistador Bernal Díaz del Castillo claims to have seen inside the temples of Cape Catoche in Yucatán statues depicting young male couples engaged in conspicuous sexual acts"''. - Source: Pete Sigal, "The Politicization of Pederasty among the Colonial Yucatecan Maya" in ''Journal of the History of Sexuality'', Vol. 8, No. 1 (Jul., 1997), pp. 1-24. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/3704486 Journal link]. [https://sci-hub.zidianzhan.net/10.2307/3704486 Sci-hub link].</ref> Historians including Christian Laes,<ref>[https://www.christianlaes.be/ Christian Laes - Personal site]</ref><ref>[https://journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/oezg/article/view/3327 Laes, C. (2017). When Classicists Need to Speak Up: Antiquity and Present Day Pedophilia – Pederasty. ''Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften'', 28(3), 49–70].</ref><ref>Christian Laes, ''Children in the Roman Empire: Outsiders Within'' (Cambridge University Press, 2011).</ref><ref>; Christian Laes and Johan Strubbe, ''Youth in the Roman Empire: The Young and the Restless Years?'' (Cambridge University Press, 2014)</ref><ref>Christian Laes, 'Children and Sexuality: Roman World', in: Julia M. O'Brian (ed.), ''Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Gender Studies'' (Oxford University Press, 2014), 38–42.</ref> [[wikipedia:Andrew Lear|Andrew Lear]],<ref>[https://library.lol/main/53872FCED674EC41DFC6B26B198D1F7F Eva Cantarella and Andrew Lear, ''Images of Pederasty: Boys Were Their God'' (Routledge, 2008)].</ref><ref>Andrew Lear, 'Was Pederasty Problematized? A Diachronic View', in: Mark Masterson/Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz/James Robson (eds.), ''Sex in Antiquity: Exploring Gender and Sexuality in the Ancient World'' (London/New York, 2015), pp. 115–136.</ref><ref>[https://library.lol/main/35E193AC1C1DADA75905ADD4DE8E0098 Andrew Lear, ''Noble Eros: the idealization of pederasty from the Greek dark ages to the Athens of Socrates'' (2004, PhD Thesis)].</ref> [[Thomas Hubbard]], Beert C. Verstraete,<ref>[https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2009/2009.09.61/ Beert Verstraete, Review of 'The Greeks and Greek Love: A Radical Reappraisal of Homosexuality in Ancient Greece', ''Bryn Mawr Classical Review'', 3. Nov. 2009].</ref> and [[William Percy]], have conducted extensive research on Greek Pederasty and the life of children / young people in Greco-Roman society.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Source: (Bancroft, i. 415 and authorities Palon, Crespi, Boscana, Motras, Torquemada, Duflot and Fages). ([[Sir_Richard_Burton|Richard F. Burton]], Terminal Essay).</ref> and the South American Mayans.<ref>''For traditional Mayan culture, the introduction of pederasty is attributed to the god Chin; it was not so uncommon for a man to try to get a younger male lover of his son when he grew up left his father's house. The European Dominican friar Juan de Torquemada states, in his inquisitorial provisions that "if the youngest boy has been seduced by a stranger, the penalty to be imposed must be equivalent to that for adultery"; while the conquistador Bernal Díaz del Castillo claims to have seen inside the temples of Cape Catoche in Yucatán statues depicting young male couples engaged in conspicuous sexual acts"''. - Source: Pete Sigal, "The Politicization of Pederasty among the Colonial Yucatecan Maya" in ''Journal of the History of Sexuality'', Vol. 8, No. 1 (Jul., 1997), pp. 1-24. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/3704486 Journal link]. [https://sci-hub.zidianzhan.net/10.2307/3704486 Sci-hub link].</ref> Historians including Christian Laes,<ref>[https://www.christianlaes.be/ Christian Laes - Personal site]</ref><ref>[https://journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/oezg/article/view/3327 Laes, C. (2017). When Classicists Need to Speak Up: Antiquity and Present Day Pedophilia – Pederasty. ''Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften'', 28(3), 49–70].</ref><ref>Christian Laes, ''Children in the Roman Empire: Outsiders Within'' (Cambridge University Press, 2011).</ref><ref>; Christian Laes and Johan Strubbe, ''Youth in the Roman Empire: The Young and the Restless Years?'' (Cambridge University Press, 2014)</ref><ref>Christian Laes, 'Children and Sexuality: Roman World', in: Julia M. O'Brian (ed.), ''Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Gender Studies'' (Oxford University Press, 2014), 38–42.</ref> [[wikipedia:Andrew Lear|Andrew Lear]],<ref>[https://library.lol/main/53872FCED674EC41DFC6B26B198D1F7F Eva Cantarella and Andrew Lear, ''Images of Pederasty: Boys Were Their God'' (Routledge, 2008)].</ref><ref>Andrew Lear, 'Was Pederasty Problematized? A Diachronic View', in: Mark Masterson/Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz/James Robson (eds.), ''Sex in Antiquity: Exploring Gender and Sexuality in the Ancient World'' (London/New York, 2015), pp. 115–136.</ref><ref>[https://library.lol/main/35E193AC1C1DADA75905ADD4DE8E0098 Andrew Lear, ''Noble Eros: the idealization of pederasty from the Greek dark ages to the Athens of Socrates'' (2004, PhD Thesis)].</ref> [[Thomas Hubbard]], Beert C. Verstraete,<ref>[https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2009/2009.09.61/ Beert Verstraete, Review of 'The Greeks and Greek Love: A Radical Reappraisal of Homosexuality in Ancient Greece', ''Bryn Mawr Classical Review'', 3. Nov. 2009].</ref> and [[William Percy]],<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"><ref> William A. Percy III. [https://web.archive.org/web/20200926145823/http://www.williamapercy.com/wiki/images/Sexual_Revolution.pdf Sexual Revolution 600 B.C.- 400 A.D.: The Origins of Institutionalized Pederasty in Greece], in: Wayne R. Dynes (Ed.) [https://web.archive.org/web/20210127132148/http://williamapercy.com/wiki/index.php?title=Wayne_R._Dynes#Studies_in_Homosexuality Studies of Homosexuality], Vol 1: Ancient World, 1992</ref> </ins>have conducted extensive research on Greek Pederasty and the life of children / young people in Greco-Roman society.</div></td></tr>
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