• Kanda@reddthat.com
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    5 months ago

    In Plato’s Symposium they say something along the lines of “You fuck a man for the soul, a woman for the body (Ew disgusting)”

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      5 months ago

      For children, a woman; for pleasure, a young boy; but for true paradise, a melon.

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          5 months ago

          12 was the minimum for Greeks, ~16 was preferred, 20 was getting a bit old if you weren’t a Theban.

          The past is… not a pleasant place. Of course, they also often married girls around that age too…