Nope. Gay sex between adults of equal status was highly stigmatized. They were mostly just raping women and going to brothels. It’s not like being gay is a choice or that the Greeks had way more gays
While this is a possibility, it also seems like you missed some major points of the movie/story. Odysseus’s crew did a lot of raping and pillaging. They were punished for their actions.
If only they kept it at gay sex. The fact that the Illiad is kick started by Achilles and Agamemnon fighting over a sex slave paints a very different picture of the Greeks lol
Eh, gay sex between men was not acceptable. An elder fucking someone of lower status was more acceptable but I believe there were certain facets that were off limits. Someone fucking you was absolutely not acceptable in society. At least in Athens Greece around 600 BC. I remember reading about a politician in the history of Athens who was running for office who got cancelled once it came out his relations with other men were truly romantic
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u/luluciee Aug 05 '26
gay