pederasty

The subtext is: it's implied by either pedophilia or pederasty.

Do you hold forth that same argument when such pederasty, due to age restrictions, is classed as child abuse?

From what I've heard, pederasty was considered great, and openly indulged in by many men who were considered great.

Both in ancient Greece and feudal Japan, pederasty was common and accepted.

By the way, I can't help but notice your lack of response on the connection between queer theory and pederasty.

Greece once tolerated homosexuality, especially when practiced through pederasty, for instance.

I do wonder how all these Alt-right Alpha bros, who are into the Spartans, feel about the Spartan predilection for pederasty.

I have friends with very conservative beliefs (though none, to my knowledge, have ever argued that homosexuality is inextricably bound with pederasty).

From Wikipedia: Pederasty or paederasty (US /ˈpɛdəræsti/ or UK /ˈpiːdəræsti/) is a (usually erotic) homosexual relationship between an adult male and a pubescent or adolescent male.

It includes pederasty but is not exclusive to it.

What you are talking about was pederasty, not homosexuality.

Swenglish (Swedish English) mangling of the word pederasty.

Also my understanding was that it often was a matter of pederasty rather than "love" like when people talk about "marriage equality" nowadays or what not.

The word pederasty derives from Greek (paiderastia) "love of boys",[1] a compound derived from παῖς (pais) "child, boy" and ἐραστής (erastēs) "lover".

A contextual reading of his target audience when he condemns homosexuality (which isn't the word he uses, since that word/concept didn't quite exist yet) shows that he was critiquing the Greek church's practice of pederasty, aka "Platonic love." The reason for Paul's disdain of the practice was that elders were taking advantage of young boys for their own sexual gratification.

Anyway, he talks at length about the social functions of pederasty (from other sources, presumably non-penetrative) and wife-swapping in ancient Sparta, and the upshot is that both of these have to be seen, if we take him seriously, as back-bone institutions on which Sparta's political structure was built (reading van Gennep's "The Rites of Passage" has only further solidified this view in my head btw).

Pederasty, at least, remains a common behavior among modern homosexuals.

Pederasty was an important part of Greek culture.

Pederasty was practiced in many cultures.