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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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Bowersock claims that the "real contribution" of Lear and Cantarella's book is the reprinting of Keith DeVries' comprehensive inventory of pederastic scenes on pottery.
But at the very ending of the chapter, noting Horace's well-known vulnerability to pederastic desire--the love of young girls and boys--Sinfield concludes that Jonson need not address it because it was not worth addressing: "unlicensed cross-gender relations were regarded as more dangerous than private, same-gender liaisons" (51-52).
He craved the monogrammed blazers and the surplices, and was even prepared for the pederastic choirmasters.
 
 
 
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