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pederasty
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The criminal offense of unnatural copulation between men.

The term pederasty is usually defined as anal intercourse of a man with a boy. Pederasty is a form of Sodomy.


See also: sodomy


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Subsequent commentaries on (and works inspired by) Plato's dialogues on love and a Neoplatonic hermeneutic would transform Plato's paiderastia and Ficino's homoerotic pedagogy and spirituality into a Renaissance version of fin'amors (courtly love), one that was resolutely heterosexual and ostensibly offered the possibility of moral and spiritual improvement.
Sometimes Jowett tries to translate ancient paiderastia (a type of social contract between an older and a younger man governed by precise laws of conduct) into modern heterosexual terms.
McKenna comments: Oscar lived in an age when the only intellectual and historical justification for love and sex between men was the tradition of Greek paiderastia.
 
 
 
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