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Fit_Cherry7133 t1_j25589w wrote

Reply to comment by quid_facis_cacasne in What’s the difference between an American girl and an Iranian girl? by vartha

Wait, so who were the gay dude's banging then??

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quid_facis_cacasne t1_j2565j0 wrote

I know that's the really weird contradiction about it. The way the Greeks worked around it was to encourage the passive partner to be an adolescent, because it was thought that it would be even more dishonourable for an adult man to be in that position. This is in Foucault's History of Sexuality.

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