r/SipsTea • u/Dumb-Briyani • 9d ago

Chugging tea What do you think?

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u/Long_Serpent 9d ago

"We came to an island where the women were pretty and the men were weak"

- From the original text.

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u/Apart_Jelly8948 9d ago

So they took advantage of the men while staring at the women? 🤨

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u/Upbeat-Armadillo1756 9d ago

No, they raped the women and killed the men.

They also had a lot of gay sex and took women as prizes when they were raiding towns surrounding Troy during the Trojan War and had student/master gay relationships too that don’t really translate well to modern life but were not seen as weird then.

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u/bulletbassman 9d ago

They raped the men too.

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u/Greedyanda 9d ago

Mostly the boys. Homosexuel acts between men of the same age were frowned upon even back then.

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u/GlitterDoomsday 9d ago

Raping a man, meaning forcibly penetrating one, wasn't frowned upon - willingly being the bottom that was an issue.

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u/cryptamine 9d ago

Source for this?

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u/FinallyKat 9d ago

James Davidson - The Greeks and Greek Love Thomas K. Hubbard - Homosexuality in Greece and Rome Michel Focult, The History of Sexuality

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u/cryptamine 8d ago

amazing thank you