pederasty

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The main form of this was pederasty, a custom that seems to have been practiced mostly among the upper classes, in which an older man (the '' erastest '') would make a young free boy (the

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  1. Unnatural carnal union of males with males, especially boys.

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  • He laughed at the police and the cheated husbands, indulged in Venus and Bacchus to excess, sacrificed to the god of pederasty, and gamed incessantly. —  Return to Rome
  • They keep on preaching that pederasty is comparatively unknown and entraps only a few, but many clever men endeavour to be entrapped, and end by thinking it so pleasant that they prefer these monsters to the most beautiful women The Pope would be sure of heaven if he put a stop to this scandalous practice I don't agree with you. —  Return to Naples
  • Greek laws existed which regulated pederasty, while later Romans laws went further in restricting it. —  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • [211] Scroggs also sees the condemnation of homosex but supposes that Paul's condemnation of homosex only targets pederasty, —  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • Regardings pederasty, while this might have been the predominant form of homosexuality in the Greek world, the idea that Paul only had this form of homosex in mind in condemning sex between males with males is seen as very unlikely. —  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
 

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  1. from French pédérastie, from New Latin Pæderastia, from . Greek παιδεραστία, love of boys, from παιδεραστής, a lover of boys: see pederast.
 

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