Actually, the whole man/boy love thing is more associated with ancient Greece than Rome.
While the Romans imitated the Greeks in this regard, as in just about everything else, it never became a truly central focus of their culture as in Greece.
It’s also only fair to point out the boys in question are pubescent/adolescent, not five year olds. Doesn’t make it much less objectionable, but in the interests of factual correctness...
Notice my lower post....I corrected it to Greece, although pederasty was common in all cultures and it was Judeo/Christian ethics which made it “sin” and thus evil. Middle East never did, nor did the East and Africa unless influenced by the Western culture—they still practice pederasty and homosexuality and pederasty in the Middle East—although they would never dignify it with “marriage”—even they know how utterly stupid.
...Spartans started with boys around 7. Kind of the age the Afghanis start with—maybe 8.....NAMBLA’s saying, if not by eight, then it is too late.
Pederasty of course was dominate and the scandal was when these young men turned to other young men and dumped the old ones.
Pedophilia was more common in ancient Greece but it was not widely approved of even there. There are jokes in some plays making fun of the guys who do it.
Alcibiades makes it plain that Socrates never made any advances toward him even tho they often slept in the same bed.
Aristophanes really hits them hard in some of his plays.
It probably exists but I have never read anything from ancient Greece approving of it.