Alexander The Great's Sex Life
The Ancients
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The Female Role in Sexual Relationships
There's something implied in taking the quote unquote feminine role that there wasn't as much, if you were what we would now call the top in vernacular, the one doing the penetrating. So I can think we can imagine around that age. They're teenagers. We have evidence of soldiers, elite Macedonian figures, these pages, basically a young Macedonian officer school for like these teenagers, learning to be officers, of them having sexual relations with another young man from the pages. But it is very interesting also. Alexander and Hephaestin, greatly debated whether they were lovers or not, but we do in the story of Alexander the Great with this conspiracy called the Royal Pages
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