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The Erotic Affection of Safo
There was a power imbalance between men and women in Greek society. Dubin says, it taxes belief that the erotic admiration via poetry could be effective where the author dissociates herself from it. A lot of people when denying that Safo could have been feeling these things personally claim that she can't be expressing these feelings because some of her poems are ritualized. But they're not contradictory. Maybe she was drawn to these forms of expression because she liked ladies and wanted to talk about how much she liked them.
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