Wow, I guess the Greeks being pedophiles was just a myth that people have mistakenly believed for thousands of years >>17919977, and we now know better because one academic released a shitty propaganda book misrepresenting sources to promote an agenda.

In chapter 3, he sets out to mislead the reader into believing there is some sort of consensus in Athens that under-18s are off-limits sexually, akin to the modern day.

He claims that laws prohibited men from entering the gymnasium when under-18s were present, even though these laws prohibit men from entering the palaestra when paides (boys between 7 and 14) were present, not under-18s. He claims the "effective age of consent" was 18, because there was a law that stated that if the guardian of a boy prostituted the boy, the boy would not be considered responsible, but the guardian and the man who solicited the boy (again, this law is in reference to paides, not under-18s).

None of these laws provide evidence that paides or under-18s were considered sexually off-limits, and it actually provides evidence that it was widely expected for men to be sexually attracted to immature boys. It was considered a given that men were attracted to paides.

Then he just lies about sexual imagery, claiming that most of it depicts men over 18 without evidence, and speciously tries to claim that there were actually laws expressly outlawing sexual relations with under-18s, because men were forced to be chaste in relationships with boys who were "akairos"/"before the right time" (which he mistranslates as minor in an attempt to relate it to the mischaracterization of Athenian social attitudes he gave prior).

More faggot propaganda to whitewash pedophilia from the historical record, and pretend historical homosexuality was akin to modern day homosexuality.

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>It was just young boys being sexually abused by older richer men
*according to feminists