sadschmuck [none/use name]@hexbear.net to askchapo@hexbear.netEnglish · edit-21 year agoWhat does it mean to love someone?message-squaremessage-square51fedilinkarrow-up179arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up179arrow-down1message-squareWhat does it mean to love someone?sadschmuck [none/use name]@hexbear.net to askchapo@hexbear.netEnglish · edit-21 year agomessage-square51fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarefrankfurt_schoolgirl [she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·1 year agoI think this is a myth honestly. Plato fucked his students, he just thought that close relationships where you didn’t have sex were the most ideal typw of relationship to have. https://learninglink.oup.com/access/content/gillis-jacobs2e-student-resources/gillis-jacobs2e-chapter-5-plato-and-same-sex-sexuality?previousFilter=all_resources
minus-squaresadschmuck [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 year ago This passage is an unusual celebration of male same-sex desire by contemporary Western standards. Plato is explicitly linking manliness not with heterosexual desire but with homosexual desire.
I think this is a myth honestly. Plato fucked his students, he just thought that close relationships where you didn’t have sex were the most ideal typw of relationship to have. https://learninglink.oup.com/access/content/gillis-jacobs2e-student-resources/gillis-jacobs2e-chapter-5-plato-and-same-sex-sexuality?previousFilter=all_resources