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The Myths of Spartan Homosexuality & Pederasty

Often an adult Spartan man took a young man or boy under his wing, and in this case the relationship was of the teacher-student, mentor, sponsor kind, as was the relationship between Achilles (the brash young hero) and Patroclus (his prudent and wise mentor, older than him), a relationship that, without any justification, has been classified as homosexual by certain media groups. This is where modern historiography, serving clear interests of social engineering, has stuck its big nose.  

The pace of life that the Spartan soldier led was very intense, and as a result the soldiers felt a close sense of brotherhood with each other. This has been used to feed the false myth of Spartan homosexuality & pederasty.

About the Spartans, Xenophon wrote:

“If anyone, being an honest man, admired the soul of a boy and tried to make a friendship & association with him, this was approved of, because the Spartans believed in the excellence of this type of training. But if it was ever clear that the reason for the attraction was the boy's outward beauty, this friendship was forbidden & seen as an abomination. And so men abstained from sex with boys just as parents abstain from sexual intercourse with their children, or brothers and sisters from sexual intercourse with each other.”
  
Here we have seen that such a relationship between man and adolescent in Sparta was of the teacher-student type, of mentorship, founded on respect and admiration, and involving training and instruction.
  
Others spoke about the Spartan institution of mentor-student love, but they always made it clear that this love was "chaste." The Roman Aelius said that if two Spartan men were ever to "succumb to temptation and indulge in carnal relations, they must redeem the insult to Sparta's honor by either going into exile or ending their own lives." Which basically meant that the penalty for homosexuality in Sparta was death or exile (exile was considered in those days worse than death itself).  
  
It is worth mentioning that if homosexuality & pederasty was really something as natural for the early Greeks as it was later on for the Greeks of the declining decadent states, Hellenic mythology would be infested with explicit references to sodomite relations, and it is not, since homosexuality was a plague foreign to the Hellenic spirit that appeared only when Greece had already fallen into decadence. By Plato's time, for example, homosexuality & pedophilia (of both boys & girls) was beginning to be tolerated in Athens itself. However, ancient and even some modern authors make it clear that Sparta had never fallen into this filth. Moreover, the high status of women in Sparta would have ensured that male homosexuality & pederasty would never have been able to take root as a cultural practice. Homosexuality & pederasty appeared in other Greek states only in their decadent declines, alongside the misogyny & pedophilia that unfortunately characterized some Greek states in their declining twilight years.

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