023 THIS IS SPARTA
The History of Ancient Greece
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The Origins of Romantic Connections
The ancient Greeks lacked the binary division modern society tends to impose between people who are considered homosexual and those who are viewed as heterosexual. For males and females alike, liaisons with members of the same sex provided much of the companionship, sexual pleasure, and sense of spiritual well-being that many people in modern western society nowadays often associate with marriage. We know less about the homoerotic bonds between women, but Plutarch reports that respectable women would have love affairs with unmarried girls.
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