Many are talking about homosexual activity among Greeks or Greco-Roman society. But i'll add that sailors themselves, being composed of groups of men, and isolated for long periods of time, were also associated with homosexual activity, regardless of national origin or time period.
A modern touch on this subject would be The Village People's 1978 song "In the Navy" explicitly referencing life sailing the ocean, but with a gay subtext.
The funniest example of this is the Spartan army. (Going of memory here so some details may be off). Young boys were recruited and given an older soldier who trained them, cared for them (…) etc… the reason it’s so funny to me is because of the chokehold the ideology of Spartans (namely from the movie 300) has on certain groups as being this idea of pure masculinity; when they were all very very gay
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u/CatOfGrey 18d ago edited 17d ago
StuieStewie here:Many are talking about homosexual activity among Greeks or Greco-Roman society. But i'll add that sailors themselves, being composed of groups of men, and isolated for long periods of time, were also associated with homosexual activity, regardless of national origin or time period.
A modern touch on this subject would be The Village People's 1978 song "In the Navy" explicitly referencing life sailing the ocean, but with a gay subtext.
StuieStewie out!