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    In ancient Greece and Rome, a catamite (Latin: catamītus) was a pubescent boy who was the intimate companion of an older male, usually in a pederastic...
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    name was Catamitus (and also "Ganymedes"), from which the English word catamite is derived. Socrates says that Zeus was in love with Ganymede, called "desire"...
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    last by the related construction bishōnen ("beautiful boy"). Bacha bazi Catamite Greek love History of human sexuality Homoeroticism Homosexuality in ancient...
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    passive male prostitute, or "catamitus", from which the English word "catamite" is derived. In the article "Some Myths and Anomalies in the Study of Roman...
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    Bithynia (c. 169 BC – c. 100 BC), Greek physician Antinous (2nd century), Catamite and eromenos of the Roman Emperor Hadrian Cassius Dio (c. 155 – c. 235)...
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  • and face-fuck you, 2 Aurēlī pathice et cinaede Fūrī, bottom Aurelius and catamite Furius, 3 quī mē ex versiculīs meīs putāstis, you who think, because my...
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    2022. Retrieved January 28, 2023. Nugent, Mark (2008). "From 'Filthy Catamite' to 'Queer Icon': Elagabalus and the Politics of Sexuality (1960–1975)"...
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    lap. Miyagawa Isshō, Spring Pastimes, 1750 Sex work portal LGBT portal Catamite Greek love History of human sexuality Homosexuality in pre-Meiji Japan...
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    stages in their lives. But, he notes, if Hephaestion was Alexander's "catamite", the stigma attached to being the passive sexual partner is not something...
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  • however, could take the active role with a young male slave, known as a catamite or puer delicatus. The latter was allowed because anal intercourse was...
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    who sells his favours for a price to anyone who wants them is called a catamite; but if anyone forms a love-attachment with someone whom he knows to be...
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    simulsexuality or similsexualism: homosexuality Intersexuality[citation needed] Catamite Invert Third sex Coined by the German astrologist, author and psychoanalyst...
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  • was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me." On one level...
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    particular Godrick, a "very effeminate-faced youth" whom he calls "his catamite and bedfellow". This conclusion has been disputed by others, who point...
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    trial and was executed in 1550 for claiming that "St. John was Christ's catamite". Wayne Dynes also makes a link to the modern day where in 1970s New York...
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  • Glory Cabin Boy, a 1994 fantasy comedy film directed by Adam Resnick A catamite or paramour employed in a menial capacity as pretense This disambiguation...
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    claimed a butch was "a lesbian with masculine characteristics." In Of Catamites and Kings, Rubin describes a butch as those lesbians who use masculine...
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  • Dartington Hall School and as the biographer of the Roman Emperor Hadrian's catamite, Antinous. Royston Lambert was born in Barking in the East End of London...
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    town had a brothel where female and male prostitutes could be had. Male catamites fetched a higher price than female concubines since pederasty with a teenage...
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  • dignitaries were served sour wine by Mark Antony in Greece, Augustus's catamite were drinking Falernian in Rome. This refers to Sarmentus, the former slave...
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    Hisham II, and al-Mu-tamid openly chose boys as sexual partners, and kept catamites. Homosexual prostitution was widespread, and its customers came from higher...
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    Ganymede should be seen not in the Renaissance context of the homo-erotic catamite theme, but in a relatively new Protestant Baroque interpretation of Ganymede...
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    ISBN 978-90-474-1134-5, retrieved 2024-05-13 Nugent, Mark (2008). "From 'Filthy Catamite' to 'Queer Icon': Elagabalus and the Politics of Sexuality (1960–1975)"...
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  • Ifriqiya (ruled 875–902), who was said to have been surrounded by some sixty catamites, yet whom he was said to have treated in a most horrific manner. Caliph...
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    bardache (English equivalent: "bardash") meaning "passive homosexual", "catamite" or even "boy prostitute". Bardache, in turn, derived from the Persian...
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    military officer on campaign might be accompanied by a concubinus. Like the catamite or puer delicatus, the role of the concubine was regularly compared to...
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  • Shah was bisexual, and he was murdered by the associates of his favorite catamite, Khusro Khan, on the night of 14 April 1320. Ziauddin Barani, the contemporary...
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    bizarre exploits of the narrator, Encolpius, and his (possible) slave and catamite Giton, a handsome sixteen-year-old boy. It is the second most fully preserved...
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    caused by and contributing to the effeminate men (effeminati) and "foul catamites" (foedi catamitae) involved in the royal courts of Europe, while simultaneously...
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    and praises their honour. 330 BCE – Bagoas, favorite catamite to King Darius III, becomes catamite to King Alexander III of Macedon. 227 BCE, 226 BCE,...
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