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Monthly Archives: June 2016
Gender at the Shared Conversations
To my mind, there’s an unfortunate effect of this being the aspect of Greek male sexuality which Christian sites tend to focus on: it leads to an elision between homosexuality and pederasty which is not appropriate today. Continue reading
The Greeks didn’t have a word for it
A lot of statements about the ancient Greeks, the Romans, and sexuality can be found on Christian websites. They give the impression that there’s complete certainty surrounding their comments, for example on the Greeks ‘tolerating homosexuality’, phrasing which implies a historically-consistent … Continue reading
Posted in Church of England and gender
Tagged anal sex, David Halperin, erastes, eromenos, homosexuality, Kenneth Dover, Michel Foucault, pederasty
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