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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 How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Greece;" Vernon Provencal, "Glukus Himeros: Pederastic Influence on the Myth of Ganymede"; Thomas Hubbard, "Pindar's Tenth Olympian and Athlete-Trainer Pederasty"; Charles Hupperts, "Boeotian Swine: Homosexuality in Boeotia," and Anne L. 26, also does not cohere with a pederastic conception of homosexuality; one is at pains to see how homosexual activity by women (among whom the practice of pederasty was unknown) is illustrative of or synonymous to the specific practice of pederasty among men. As is well known, the West has followed a remarkable path from Greek pederastic paideia politics (and centuries of its academic interpretation) (Percy, III, 1996), anti-masturbation crusades (Hall, 1991; Pryke, 2005), discussions of the Oedipal stage, the absent father, "developmentally expected" adolescent homosexuality (Spurlock, 2002), "gender disorder" (Sedgwick, 1993; compare Zucker & Spitzer, 2005), sissiness (Grant, 2004), and circumcision (e. |
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