/lit/ - Literature

start with the greeks

>>19781131
based

>>19778590
Unfortunately, contemporary society is way too cucked and gynocentric to allow it

>The erotic relation of men to youths was the necessary and sole preparation, to a degree unattainable to our comprehension, of all manly education (pretty much as for a long time all higher education of women was only attainable through love and marriage). All idealism of the strength of the Greek nature threw itself into that relation, and it is probable that never since have young men been treated so attentively, so lovingly, so entirely with a view to their welfare (virtus) as in the fifth and sixth centuries B.C.
—Friedrich Nietzche, Human, All Too Human 259

>>19678661
>That pic
I kneel...

Were oral and anal sex practised with any regularity within the codified pederastic relationships of certain Ancient Greek city-states?

I understand that intercrural sex and kissing were said to be preferred at least publicly to protect the boy's dignity, but does anyone know if penetrative sex within this sort of relationship was commonly practised behind closed doors? Literature on this topic?

What are some books in praise of Greek love as the most sophisticated of loves?

hyacinthus killed by zephyrus