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Pederasty

Pederasty (or paederasty in Commonwealth English) (/ˈpɛdəræsti/) refers to same-sex sexual relationships between an adult man and an adolescent boy; some authors also use the term to refer to same-sex female relationships with a similar age gap. Pederasty existed as a socially acknowledged and accepted practice in some premodern societies.

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Pederasty

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related to Medieval and Renaissance Europe · 27
Pederasty → Andalus, Arnold, Christianity, Christianization, English, Eratosthenes Scholastikos, Europe, Florence, France, French, Golden Age, Greek, Greek Anthology, Hilarius, Historical, In, Jewish, Latin, Let, Nevertheless
related to Hellenism and Homosexuality in Victorian Oxford (1994) · 26
Pederasty → Aestheticism, Ancient Greek, Boy-Worship, Decadent, Dowling, Hellenism, Hellenistic, Homosexuality, In Dowling’s Hellenism, In The New Republic, Ionica, Linda, Mallock, New Republic, Oscar Wilde, Oxford, Oxford University, Plato's Symposium, Similarly, Uranian
related to Ancient Rome · 20
Pederasty → Adolescent, Ancient Roman, Eastern, Effeminacy, Fears, Graeciae, Graecorum, Greece, Greek, Greeks, Hellenic, In Archaic, In Latin, Lex Scantinia, Martial, Masters, Roman, Roman-ness, Romans, The
related to East Asia · 19
Pederasty → Accounts, Art, Buddhist, Classical, Cultural Revolution, Fragrant Character, Ihara Saikaku's The Great, Japan, Male Love, Meiji Restoration, Mirror, Novels, Peking, Pleasant Spring, Qing, Republican, The Carnal Prayer Mat, The Communist Party, Westernization
related to Ancient Greece · 16
Pederasty → According, Ancient Greece, Archaic, Classical, Greece, Greek, In, Kenneth Dover, Michel Foucault, Plato's Socrates, Socrates, Socratic, The, This, Xenophon, Xenophon's Socrates
related to Islamic world · 15
Pederasty → Although, During, European, Islam, Islamic, Islamic Golden Age, Khomeinism, Literature, Muslims, Poetry, Progressive Values, The, This, Wahhabism, Westernized
related to Africa · 13
Pederasty → African, Among, Ancient Greece, Azande, Congo, Europeans, Evans-Pritchard, However, Nyakyusa, Tanzania, The, The Nyakyusa, Zande
related to Etymology · 10
Pederasty → Ancient Greek, English, Greek, Late Latin, Latin, Plato's, Renaissance, Samuel Purchas' Pilgrimes, The, The Symposium
see also · 9
Pederasty → American Man/Boy Love AssociationPederasty, Bacha, ChinaHomosexuality, GreeceHomosexuality, GreeceSexuality, IndiaHomosexuality, JapanIntercrural, RomeHomosexuality, RomeWakashū
related to United States and Canada · 5
Pederasty → Although, Canada, Period, These, United States

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sexual boys relationships age greek men intercourse often older same-sex ancient pederastic male people boy younger also adult century social

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The Carnal Prayer Mat discuss relationships between adult meninstance ofnever let women dance.East AsiaClassical novels0.80text
young boysinstance ofnever let women dance.East AsiaClassical novels0.80text
scholars often engaged in pederastic relationships with boy actors performing in Peking operainstance ofnever let women dance.East AsiaClassical novels0.80text
Pleasant Springinstance ofNovels0.80text
Fragrant Characterinstance ofNovels0.80text
often accompanied by illustrationsinstance ofNovels0.80text
continued to openly depict pederastic themesinstance ofNovels0.80text
Eton Collegeinstance ofall-male elite British boarding schools0.80text
Harrow School held a common but officially forbidden culture of pederasty between olderinstance ofall-male elite British boarding schools0.80text
younger studentsinstance ofall-male elite British boarding schools0.80text
Wahhabisminstance ofThis informal social acceptance led European intellectuals to associate pederasty and other forms of homosexuality with Islam and heresy.The social acceptance of pederasty in th…0.80text
Khomeinisminstance ofThis informal social acceptance led European intellectuals to associate pederasty and other forms of homosexuality with Islam and heresy.The social acceptance of pederasty in th…0.80text

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