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How was same-sex desire and activity thought about in ancient Greece? What was accepted and permissible? What wasn’t? What examples of same-sex relationships appear in ancient Greek literature? What were these types of relationships like in Ancient Rome and how did they differ from those in Greece? How were same-sex female relationships viewed during these period?
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Running Head: GENDER SEXUAL STUDIES
Gender Sexual Studies
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Gender sexual studies
In ancient Greece, same-sex desire and activity were not prohibited. Many writers such as
Xenophon, Plato, Herodotus and many others conducted a lot of exploration about
homosexuality in ancient Greece. Although the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender community is
being recognized in this century and not in all nations, ancient Greece had recognition to the
homosexual people. Homosexuality in ancient Greece was the most widespread and socially
substantial form of same-sex sexual relationships. This same-sex relation was practiced between
the adult men who were fully-grown and the young boys who were on their puberty stage. The
grown adults were not supposed to be married, and also, they ...
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