This Is Sparta?
Conflicted: A History Podcast
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Sparta and the Persian Wars
The spartans weren't above using their property as sex objects either. The justification for this was, by having sex with their slaves, they were replenish in the helot population. If a helot woman gave birth to a girl, that child was often killed. Only healthy male babies were considered useful. And who knows what the ratio was between consenting encounters and non consenting encounters. It's impossible to really pen down. But come on, the helots had no choice in any of this, so draw your own conclusions on that last point.
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