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To: allmendream

I don’t think the Spartans were noted at all for homosexuality. Even in City States where it was more widely practiced, it was still the but of jokes, no pun intended.


13 posted on 06/26/2008 10:03:38 AM PDT by yarddog
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To: yarddog
You don't think? Maybe try reading some history then think again.

SPARTA By William Percy

At 12 each boy was taken by a 22-year-old “inspirer,” who
trained him for the next eight years. Then,as he “listener” began to sprout facial and body hair, he went on active full-time military duty and was assigned to a barracks where he had to sleep until he was 30, continuing to return to dine with his messmates. At 30 the inspirer married a girl of 18, who on her wedding night lay face down in a dark room in boy's attire with close-cropped hair, and henceforth he slept at home.

16 posted on 06/26/2008 10:14:35 AM PDT by allmendream (Life begins at the moment of contraception. ;))
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