In ancient Greece and Rome, a catamite (Latin: catamītus) was a pubescent boy who was the intimate companion of an older male, usually in a pederastic...

name was Catamitus (and also "Ganymedes"), from which the English word catamite is derived. Socrates says that Zeus was in love with Ganymede, called "desire"...

and the last by the related construction bishōnen ("beautiful boy"). Catamite Greek love History of human sexuality Homoeroticism Homosexuality in ancient...

Bithynia (c. 169 BC – c. 100 BC), Greek physician Antinous (2nd century), Catamite and eromenos of the Roman Emperor Hadrian Cassius Dio (c. 155 - c. 235)...

and face-fuck you, 2 Aurēlī pathice et cinaede Fūrī, bottom Aurelius and catamite Furius, 3 quī mē ex versiculīs meīs putāstis, you who think, because my...

2022. Retrieved January 28, 2023. Nugent, Mark (2008). "From 'Filthy Catamite' to 'Queer Icon': Elagabalus and the Politics of Sexuality (1960–1975)"...

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stages in their lives. But, he notes, if Hephaestion was Alexander's "catamite", the stigma attached to being the passive sexual partner is not something...

however, could take the active role with a young male slave, known as a catamite or puer delicatus. The latter was allowed because anal intercourse was...

who sells his favours for a price to anyone who wants them is called a catamite; but if anyone forms a love-attachment with someone whom he knows to be...

simulsexuality or similsexualism: homosexuality Intersexuality[citation needed] Catamite Invert Third sex Coined by the German astrologist, author and psychoanalyst...

dignitaries were served sour wine by Mark Antony in Greece, Augustus's catamite were drinking Falernian in Rome. This refers to Sarmentus, the former slave...

Glory Cabin Boy, a 1994 fantasy comedy film directed by Adam Resnick A catamite or paramour employed in a menial capacity as pretense This disambiguation...

particular Godrick, a "very effeminate-faced youth" whom he calls "his catamite and bedfellow". This conclusion has been disputed by others, who point...

trial and was executed in 1550 for claiming that "St. John was Christ's catamite". Wayne Dynes also makes a link to the modern day where in 1970s New York...

was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me." On one level...

town had a brothel where female and male prostitutes could be had. Male catamites fetched a higher price than female concubines since pederasty with a teenage...

bardache (English equivalent: "bardash") meaning "passive homosexual", "catamite" or even "boy prostitute". Bardache, in turn, derived from the Persian...

claimed a butch was "a lesbian with masculine characteristics." In Of Catamites and Kings, Rubin describes a butch as those lesbians who use masculine...

passive male prostitute, or "catamitus", from which the English word "catamite" is derived. In the article "Some Myths and Anomalies in the Study of Roman...

Dartington Hall School and as the biographer of the Roman Emperor Hadrian's catamite, Antinous. Royston Lambert was born in Barking in the East End of London...

Hisham II, and al-Mu-tamid openly chose boys as sexual partners, and kept catamites. Homosexual prostitution was widespread, and its customers came from higher...

military officer on campaign might be accompanied by a concubinus. Like the catamite or puer delicatus, the role of the concubine was regularly compared to...

Ifriqiya (ruled 875–902), who was said to have been surrounded by some sixty catamites, yet whom he was said to have treated in a most horrific manner. Caliph...

bizarre exploits of the narrator, Encolpius, and his (possible) slave and catamite Giton, a handsome sixteen-year-old boy. It is the second most fully preserved...

ISBN 978-90-474-1134-5, retrieved 2024-05-13 Nugent, Mark (2008). "From 'Filthy Catamite' to 'Queer Icon': Elagabalus and the Politics of Sexuality (1960–1975)"...

known to have entered into pederastic relationships with several court catamites, or chajewi, and the names of five of these are recorded as: Hong Yun...

Shah was bisexual, and he was murdered by the associates of his favorite catamite, Khusro Khan, on the night of 14 April 1320. Ziauddin Barani, the contemporary...

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ruling which upheld the ban as constitutional. Japan portal LGBT portal Catamite Greek love History of erotic depictions History of homosexuality History...