[verifythentrust]

I might mention that while it was more common and more accepted, (maybe not more than the last few years tho) in ancient Greece, it was still the object of derision and looked down on."

I was trying to recall some old readin I did in school. Didn't the Spartan soldiers take boys into their homes to train them. Didn't the training include having sex with them?

[yarddog]

I am not familiar with that practice and doubt if it is true for a couple of reasons.

First of all, when boys reached a certain age, (I don't remember what it was off the top of my head but it was pretty young) they were sent to live in barracks.

Secondly, it was Thebes, not Sparta who had a group of homosexual warriors, called the sacred band. I have not heard of any other Greek city state with similar ideas.

I am no expert on homosexuality in ancient Greece but someone else on FR pointed out that it was not the same thing as in modern times, in that it did not involve buggery.