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20: 75:. No male therefore who was passed this short period of life could expect to find in this way any reciprocity of affection; he must be as odious to the boy from the beginning as in a short time the boy would be to him. The objects of this kind of sensuality would therefore come only in the place of common prostitutes; they could never even to a person of this depraved taste answer the purposes of a virtuous woman. 268:
Transeo puerorum infelicium greges quos post transacta convivia aliae cubiculi contumeliae expectant; transeo agmina exoletorum per nationes coloresque discripta ut eadem omnibus levitas sit, eadem primae mensura lanuginis, eadem species capillorum, ne quis cui rectior est coma crispulis misceatur;
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There was a particular name for those who had past the short period beyond which no man hoped to be an object of desire to his own sex. They were called
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transeo pistorum turbam, transeo ministratorum per quos signo dato ad inferendam cenam discurritur. Di boni, quantum hominum unus venter exercet!
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argued that the term "exoletus" distinguished an active from a passive male prostitute, or "catamitus", from which the English word "
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has argued that the term referred not to age but to prostitutes who had become physically "worn out" by frequent anal penetration.
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trium legionum, quas Alexandreae relinquebat, curam et imperium Rufioni liberti sui filio exoleto suo demandavit.
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John Boswell (1980). Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexulaity. Chicago University Press.
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John Pollini, "The Warren Cup: Homoerotic Love and Symposial Rhetoric in Silver,"
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Qui semper secum scorta, semper exoletos, semper lucas duceret.
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However, the word is sometimes also applied to adolescents,
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Oral sex between a youth and an older male on a Roman
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Index


Spintria
Latin
ancient Rome
homosexual males
male prostitutes
Jeremy Bentham
Historia Augusta
John Pollini
John Boswell
catamite
Journal of Homosexuality
Seneca
Suetonius
Cicero
Philippics
Mark Antony
Erotic art in Pompeii and Herculaneum
Greek love
History of erotic depictions
History of human sexuality
Homosexuality in ancient Rome
Homosexuality in ancient Greece
Pederasty
Pederasty in ancient Greece
Prostitution in ancient Rome
Sexuality in ancient Rome
Jeremy Bentham, Offences Against One's Self
ISBN
0-226-06711-4

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