071 Love, Sex, and Prostitution
The History of Ancient Greece
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Masturbation in Ancient Greece
Pornographic literature existed in the Hellenistic period, but seems to have been limited to sexual type manuals that enumerated the physicians of heterosexual intercourse. To the ancient Greeks, masturbation was a normal and healthy substitute for other sexual pleasures,. Airstophanes described Spartans as a wankers in his comedy, Lysistrata. The majority of prostitutes were women, of all ages, though young men were also known. Both genders were for a predominantly male clientele, though as we will see there were some exceptions.
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