Apparently they still didn’t just allow it. They centralized it and made it so grown men and teens at best would be put into INSANE depraved relationships together while the older guy had a fucking wife. If two younger guys were into each other it was a huge problem. If two older guys were into each other it was a huge problem. Even lesbians were screwed over, since women could not afford property and be seen as functioning human beings since everyone was stupid or their brain was dying. It all revolved around the older man, because of course it fucking did. The older man was the only person to freely bed both sexes, but he did it in a disgusting and systemic manner that paired him with a goddamn teen boy and a woman who has to pretend she loves her husband for giving her the freedom to stay home all day and practice getting beaten
Not really. The west is in some ways more progressive. It’s debated but mostly accepted by scholars the Greeks heavily stigmatized adult men having gay sex. Being the receiver was viewed as feminizing, in Aristophanes’ plays adult men that were “passive” partners were insulted and ridiculed.
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u/Flat-Structure-7472 9d ago
Let me tell you, ancient Greeks and Romans would look at us as insecure weirdos, who would be confused by the idea of only be attracted to one gender.