HISTORY

"ERASTIS" & "EROMENOS": ANCIENT GREEK LOVERS

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In ancient Greece not all men were gay, however sexual relationships between men were tolerated by most hellenic city-states. The most common sexual relationship between men was that between a mature man - teacher "erastis" and an adolescent tutor "eromenos". Regularly sexual relationship didn't include anal penetration. After "eromenos" was becoming a man and getting married, the two men used to keep a relationship of deep respect, while it was his turn to become an "erastis" to another young boy.

CENTAUR

“Έρως ανίκατε μάχαν…” (EROS INVINCIBLE)

FROTTAGE OR COCKRUBBING OR "HYACINTH LOVE"

More frottage pics here.
About Apollo and Hyacinth here.

Greek depiction of lovers Zephyros (the west wind) and Hyacinthos engaging in frot. Attic red-figure vase (kylix) signed by Douris, 490 - 480 b.C. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

WHAT WOULD YOU CHOOSE?

A VOTE FOR EUROPE, A VOTE FOR GREECE

Today Greece is on vote

Should I vote Alexi the sexy? No! Radicalists have no plans, or even worse, their plans are dangerous

What about the fascist Golden Dawn? Nein!

I don't really like this man. Actually, I had sworn that I would never vote him. However, he's the less dangerous in the present situation. So, the liberal Samaras could be a choice

Greeks have elections, but they have no options. A Gr-exit from the Eurozone would be fatal for my country. Greece shouldn't become Poland or Romania from the '90s

Euro is our currency now and we have to defend it. I work a lot, I pay all my taxes and I can assure you that there are millions of Greeks like me. Actually, most of them. And if we dance and sing a lot, things that we 've been accused of, that's not bad at all. Nobody can live in the sunshine without celebrating life and its beauties

The history of Europe goes back to ancient greek antiquity. There 's no Greece without Europe, as there 's no Europe without Greece!

300 FOLLOWERS

HOMOIOS EROS (HOMOSEXUAL LOVE)

Ancient greek pottery showing an adult man trying to seduce a beautiful youth by touching his genitals with his right hand and offering him a rabbit in his left hand.

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FULL FRONTAL NUDE HUNK MANU BENNETT IN "SPARTACUS BLOOD AND SAND"

ZEUS AND GANYMEDES

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"And godlike Gandymede, most beautiful

Of men; the gods beheld and caught him up

To heaven, so beautiful was he, to pour

The wine to Jove, and ever dwell with them."

Homer

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"There, too, flushed Ganymede, his rosy thigh

Half buried in the eagle's down,

Sole as a flying star shot through the sky

Above the pillared town."

Tennyson
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DIOGENES OF SINOPE

Diogenes of Sinope

“Αποσκότησόν μου! Stand out of my sunlight!” Alexander visits Diogenes at Corinth, by W Matthews 1914

Alexander visits Diogenes living in a barrel at Corinth in an early 19th century engraving

Modern Diogenes