"clearly in their own youth they were initiated into adulthood by an older male."
<<<“they were also abused as children by older predatory Pederasts”>>>
"That is not what the great writers of Greece say"
You can't seem to make up your mind.
They both entered the relationship for selfish reasons; the boy for
educational and social advantages, and the man for reasons of sex and
companionship.22
Once a man had wooed his darling, it was his job to make the boy into a
woman. Since it was dishonorable for any man to be passive, the boy ?who
would someday be a man - had to be seen as a woman. At the same time,
however, the lover was attempting to help advance the boy as a man. Boys,
incapable of emitting semen ? hence boys before adolescence, were not really
viewed as male, so it was not all that difficult to portray them as female.23 This
had to be quite an emotionally confusing strain, however, on the young boy. In
this situation a boy who is trying to advance as a man, is also playing the role of a
woman so it can be all right for what his lover is doing to him. The male in this
system is all part of a cycle. At one point in his life he is the pursued darling, and
at another point, he becomes the pursuing adult lover.
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You may not consider it abusive when a Man dresses up a young Boy to look like a girl for the purpose of having sex with him, but I sure do and so does any decent human being. |
