pederasty, n.Definitions

Pederasty (n.) dressed ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠itself, in antiquity, as friendship, virtue and teaching — and Lucian ends his dialogue by mischievously naming the acts it tried to hide.

Pederasty (n.) failed ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠its own Athenian excuse: the lovers wanted only the boy's body, never cared for him, and dropped him the moment his desirable youth was gone.

Pederasty (n.) among ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the Greeks loved in the boy not his masculinity but his likeness to a woman — and when the boy became a man he stopped being loved and became a lover of boys himself.

Pederasty (n.) produced, ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠in Greece, a huge literature not because it was accepted but because it was a problem: a future free citizen could not be dominated as an object of pleasure — "please, don't treat a boy as a woman."