Alexander The Great's Sex Life
The Ancients
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The Sex Life of Alexander the Great
When Alexander comes to the throne, he's born about 356 and Philip II is assassinated in 336. We have several examples surviving from the many sources of him with several different sexual partners. The only story we have of Alexander having a female lover before he ascends the throne was around a courtesan called Calexena. But this isn't suggest that Alexander didn't have that much interest in sex at all, although this is sometimes said by later sources.
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