pederasty
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Pederasty was a sexual relationship between an adult man and an adolescent boy that was practiced and culturally accepted in ancient Greece. It matters historically because understanding this practice is important for studying ancient Greek society, values, and how attitudes toward such relationships have changed dramatically over time.
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- Etymology
- History
- Ancient Greece
- Ancient Rome
- Medieval and Renaissance Europe
- Africa
- Australia
- Precolonial era
- 18th-20th centuries
- Central Asia
- East Asia
- Early modern Europe
- Pederasty among classical scholars
- Pederasty in boarding schools
- Pederasty in the British Navy
- Islamic world
- Oceania
- New Guinea
- Solomon Islands
- Vanuatu
- United States and Canada
- Pederasty in literature
- ''Hellenism and Homosexuality in Victorian Oxford'' (1994)
- ''The Happy Prince and Other Tales'' (1888)
- Other literary works
- Ancient era
- Early modern era
- Modern era
- Contemporary online pederastic literature
- Modern view
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|Pederastic kissing on an Attic kylix (5th century BC)
Pederasty (or paederasty in Commonwealth English) () refers to same-sex sexual relationships between an adult man and an adolescent boy; some authors also use the term to refer to same-sex female relationships with a similar age gap. Pederasty existed as a socially acknowledged and accepted practice in some premodern societies.