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Posted by Onyx on 2026-February-14 22:15:08, Saturday
In reply to It Takes Two to Masturbate posted by Bromios on 2026-February-13 01:18:17, Friday

This is a different take on Greek pederasty than I'm used to seeing, and it dovetails neatly with some other histories of ancient and indigenous cultures I've encountered. Namely, population control. It's a widely-overlooked motivation for institutionalized homosexuality, and it's been very effective. I love the idea of the Greeks being pleasantly surprised by their iconic cultural contributions rising in part from their sexual strategies.

I'm not sure that masturbating alone is always in every case a bad idea, but I'm quite on board with the general point that progressive permission of what used to be condemned as the sin of Onan is conditional, and does not extend to true freedom or autonomy for young people to choose (or even have) sexual partners.

I think it connects to parents' discomfort about their children's sexuality, which then begs the question, what happened to parenthood such that everyone just forgot that children are sexual beings?

Onyx

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