History Channel - History of Sex - Classical Greece

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Comment by Mitsos on May 23, 2009 at 7:17am

"Though Plato in his Laws implies otherwise in asserting that the Spartan custom of males taking sexual pleasure with other males was 'παρά φύσιν' "beyond nature"[8], many ancient writers held that Spartan pederasty was chaste, though still erotic. Lycurgus decreed that if someone, being himself an honest man, admired a boy's soul and tried to make of him an ideal friend without reproach and to associate with him, he approved, and believed in the excellence of this kind of training. But if it were clear the attraction lay in the boy's bodily beauty, he banned the connection as an abomination; and thus he mandated that "erastes should abstain from boys just as parents abstain from sexual intercourse with their own children." This system, implies Xenophon, produces the most modest, trustworthy and self-controlled men in all of Greece. [9]

Those who hold that carnal relations were excluded nevertheless depict the relations as sensual. Januarius Nepotianus, for example, holds that the Lacedemonians permitted kisses and sleeping together as long as the two were separated by a sheet.[10]

Plutarch also describes the relationships as chaste, and states that it was as unthinkable for a lover to sexually consummate a relationship with his beloved as for a father to do so with his own son"

Comment by Mitsos on May 23, 2009 at 7:03am

http://homosexualityinancientgreece.wordpress.com/category/laws-aga...
Perhaps the reason why gays could not hold office and where even forbidden going to the market.
Punished by death occasionally.
Setting your disclaimer aside that you are not gay.....lol
More gay theme videos please you and your lovers can watch.
Plonk!
What a lamer