071 Love, Sex, and Prostitution
The History of Ancient Greece
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Greek Sexuality Is Not the Same as Ours
Most Athenian men might have had sex with both females and other males. Greek sexuality is not really the same as our modern conception of bisexuality. They did not perceive sexual orientation in terms of a life choice. The most widespread form of same-sex relationship was that between an adult man and an adolescent boy, known as peterastia.
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