eromenos

There is also evidence that penetration was often avoided by having the erastes face his beloved and place his penis between the thighs of the eromenos, which is known as intercrural sex.

Homosexuality Pickett, Brent 2006

I never expected to see "eromenos" jokes in my super-hero comics, so good on Pak and Van Lente.

(postmodernbarney.com) 2009

This is why it was crucial that the eromenos be temporary.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Ted Olson, Law vs. Policy, and the Role of Courts vs. Counsel: 2009

In the case of cities like Sparta, the eromenos was supposed to become an erastes so that he, in turn, would adopt and train an eromenos.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Ted Olson, Law vs. Policy, and the Role of Courts vs. Counsel: 2009

As with many ancient societies, the problematic part was the role of the eromenos.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Ted Olson, Law vs. Policy, and the Role of Courts vs. Counsel: 2009

The highly structured erastes/eromenos relationship was an aesthetic and intellectual ideal that was not necessarily even reflective of a homosexual sexual orientation.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Ted Olson, Law vs. Policy, and the Role of Courts vs. Counsel: 2009

I am well aware of ancient Greek practices, which indeed included same sex lovers, but I maintain that the notion of a same sex couple marrying and setting up a domestic household would be regarded as pointless, if not ridiculous–precisely because there would no be offspring and the relationship between the erastes and the eromenos was intended to be unequal and temporary.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Ted Olson, Law vs. Policy, and the Role of Courts vs. Counsel: 2009

The important thing was that a Greek not be the eromenos of a foreigner or non citizen, but a citizen in the “active” role of course could have a series of eromenoi, or have a sexual relationship with a non-citizen without age restrictions.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Ted Olson, Law vs. Policy, and the Role of Courts vs. Counsel: 2009

The end result of Davidson's work is that all the usual suspects — the kinaidos, the katapugon, the eromenos — trotted out to show Greek contempt of sexual passivity — don't look like usual suspects anymore.

The Uses and Abuses of Historicism: Halperin and Shelley on the Otherness of Ancient Greek Sexuality 2006

For Davidson, buggery only became a problem under certain contexts like commerce, and the roles of erastes and eromenos do not have any necessary gender implications.

The Uses and Abuses of Historicism: Halperin and Shelley on the Otherness of Ancient Greek Sexuality 2006