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3 Shocking Facts About Homosexuality in Ancient Greece That Won’t Let You Sleep
In Ancient Greek, people loved to lose themselves in a lustful passionate night.
Greeks delighted themselves in the pleasures of good sex.
They would organize small events filled with good food, hot bodies, and fantastic wine.
For Greeks, the refreshing feeling of drunkenness and the human desire to be one with another awakened as night approached.
Greeks were sexually fluid. They didn’t care to do threesomes or orgies with people of the same sex.
Here are three shocking facts about homosexuality in Ancient Greece:
Sugar daddy and sugar baby boy
The most common homosexual relationship in Ancient Greece was Pederasty: sex between an older man with a teenage boy.
Erastes was the name of the Older man. His role was to protect and educate his teenage lover (Eromenos).
Eromenos honored and delighted Erastes with his beauty and youth.
The relationships between men started when the teenagers left their tribes to go to the city.
They had to become adults but to get to the “real world,” they received guidance from older men.
These older men ( Erastes) will teach the younger boys about culture, education, life matters, and sex.
Active and passive were way more important than your sexual orientation
Greek society didn’t care about people having same-sex relationships.
They cared about the sexual position people used while doing sex.
The positions were :
Active position: dominant correlated with masculine energy. For Greeks, masculine energy represented high status and adulthood.
Passive position: submissive correlated with feminine energy. The feminine energy represented low status and youth.
So in Greece, a man who was an adult could penetrate anything of low status, such as enslaved people, young women, and young boys.
