Anonymous ID: 606a70 July 2, 2020, 6:51 a.m. No.9824214   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

>>9824124

You've never done any research into the topic and are only going off of what jew media told you.

How do I know?

I actually researched the topic and it's absolute bullshit that there was any systemic faggotry occurring in Sparta. There's even an entire book on the topic.

Taken from here: https://www.quora.com/Were-Spartan-soldiers-engaged-in-homosexual-activities

because I'm lazy and it's too early to type up my own retort.

 

No myth about Sparta is as persistent or as controversial as the claim that pederasty and homosexuality dominated Spartan society. Even highly reputable historians such as Paul Cartledge subscribe to this theory. However, the evidence against it is far more more compelling than the evidence for it.

 

For a start, Sparta's constitution strictly prohibited pederasty. Furthermore, contemporary accounts, the evidence of archaeology, and modern psychology all strongly support those ancient historians who vehemently denied pederasty in Sparta. They also suggest that homosexuality was markedly less common in Sparta than in other Greek cities of the age.

 

Xenophon, the only historian with firsthand experience of the agoge (his sons attended it!), states explicitly: "โ€ฆ [Lycurgus] โ€ฆ laid down that in Sparta lovers should refrain from molesting boys, just as much as parents avoid having intercourse with their children or brothers with their sisters." It is hard to find a more definitive statement than this, and from the most credible source. To dismiss this evidence simply because it does not suit modern preconceived ideas is arrogant.

 

Xenophon adds: "It does not surprise me, however, that some people do not believe this, since in many cities the laws do not oppose lusting after boys." This is the crux of the matter. All of our written sources on Sparta come from these other cities, where pederasty was rampant. In short, the bulk of the written record on Sparta stems from men who could not imagine a world without homosexual love and pederasty. But then, they also could not imagine women who were educated, physically fit, and economically powerful, yet who were not also licentious and lewd. Modern readers ought to recognize that pederasty is not inherent in society โ€“ particularly not in a society where women are well integrated.

 

In fact, modern anthropology shows a strong correlation between homosexuality and misogyny. It was Athens that gave us Hesiod and Euripides who deemed women "a curse to mankind" and "a plague worse than fire or any viper" (Euripides). Sparta, in contrast, was the least โ€” arguably the only โ€” Greek city state that was definitively NOT misogynous. For more on the status and power of Spartan women see: Women

 

My position regarding the lower prevalence of homosexuality in Sparta is supported by another ancient authority, Aristotle. The Athenian philosopher blamed all of Sparta's ills on the fact that the women were in control of things โ€“ a fact that he attributed to the lack of homosexuality in Spartan society generally.

 

The archaeological evidence from Sparta likewise demonstrates an almost complete absence of pornographic images on artifacts. This is in sharp contrast to the plethora of explicitly pornographic art from both Athens and Corinth. While pederasty is as frequently depicted in Athenian and Corinthian art as heterosexual sex, no homoerotic art originating in Sparta has to my knowledge been found or identified.