TIL that in Sparta, after the wedding, brides would have their hair cut short and be dressed in men's clothing so that they would appear less threatening to their groom during the wedding night.
TIL that in Sparta, after the wedding, brides would have their hair cut short and be dressed in men's clothing so that they would appear less threatening to their groom during the wedding night.
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Surrrre that’s the reason
You should read the article, being bi was very much a part of their culture and not a trivial joke.
I was being sarcastic but I was in no way whatsoever joking
OK, no harm. It very much read as a snide joke.
Ha, yeah, I get it. “lol they gay” is usually a joke. In this case it is not, as you mentioned:
In Sparta [...] the cropping of the bride’s hair and transvestism likely aimed to transform her temporarily into an adolescent Spartan boy – a less threatening figure to the groom, who probably had made his own transition to adulthood via a close emotional and sexual relationship with an older male
It is just what was up
So the adult men fucked little boys and that was seen as a normal and good thing?
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Super gross. I always heard the joke of Ancient Greece being very pedophilic but didn't know it was true. Super duper gross. Thanks for the info, though.
@VelvetStorm
That "no man shall lie with a man" in the Bible used different words for the first man and the second man. It was actually about pedastery until the early 1900s in the US, more like 1980 in Germany. Pedastery was a big enough thing the OT had to talk about otI did not know that. Can you give me a source on that? I would love to learn more about how modern Christians get the Bible wrong.
@VelvetStorm
This one gets into incest but otherwise what I've seen. And slides are cited.
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The Spartans actually typically denied this was a part of their culture, so they were pretty aware outsiders didn't wanna hear about it.
The Greeks invented orgies, the Romans came up with the idea of inviting women.
"Women? Ugh, take them away!" - The Greeks in BC times