Alexander The Great's Sex Life
The Ancients
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The Importance of Sexual Relationships
It was very common across the ancient world, this idea that a young boy would somehow be like a parentist to an older man who would teach him lots of important things. It seems absolutely bonkers to our modern eyes, doesn't it? But not only was it fine, it was aspirational as well. And we have to talk about it, especially if we're talking about Philip at the start here. How young are we talking here? Goodness. Well, in the example of Pausanias or Alexander. We know that he had at least one younger male lover who actually wasn't a Macedonian and a Persian unit called Bhagavas. As you say, really
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