AncientGreeks.co.ukHomosexuality in Ancient Greece : The Truth
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Kinaidoi were called the exclusive adult homosexuals that did not make kids so they were useless. They didn't have the right to vote but there was no such thing as antihomosexual law against them (as many fascists slash bigots may try to convince you).
Etymology of a word is useless, unless we find the use of the word in ancient scripts. This leads to the meaning: lecher, lustful
Kinaidoi were the adult men who, after the 'effect' of the pederasty, didn't not have any curiosity for vaginas. It was something acceptable and tolerant.
As told before, homosexuality in various forms was something normal in ancient world.
The Bisexual Behavior was the accepted one for an adult man.
The only thing that ancients greeks prohibited was the male prostitution (that's what Timarhus did). They believed that if a man can sell his body so easily for money, he can also sell his country, so that man would lose his rights as Athenian citizen.
Also there wasn't such thing as marriage between 2 men, who couldn't live under the same roof. Marriage was the union of a man and a woman with ultimate goal to create family.
Other than that, no form of sexual activity was considered unnatural, or perversion, or abnormal. :)
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