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Davidson puts it this way: the erastes is simply 'a male who loves, 'the eromenos, 'a male who is' loved. '

The Uses and Abuses of Historicism: Halperin and Shelley on the Otherness of Ancient Greek Sexuality 2006

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The highly structured erastes/eromenos relationship was an aesthetic and intellectual ideal that was not necessarily even reflective of a homosexual sexual orientation.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Ted Olson, Law vs. Policy, and the Role of Courts vs. Counsel: 2009

I am well aware of ancient Greek practices, which indeed included same sex lovers, but I maintain that the notion of a same sex couple marrying and setting up a domestic household would be regarded as pointless, if not ridiculous–precisely because there would no be offspring and the relationship between the erastes and the eromenos was intended to be unequal and temporary.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Ted Olson, Law vs. Policy, and the Role of Courts vs. Counsel: 2009

In the case of cities like Sparta, the eromenos was supposed to become an erastes so that he, in turn, would adopt and train an eromenos.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Ted Olson, Law vs. Policy, and the Role of Courts vs. Counsel: 2009

Such a gap begins to undermine Halperin's claim that the Greeks understood sexual deviance more in terms of gender than in terms of desire (37) because it questions whether the Greeks saw the passive role in sodomy as deviance, and whether the erastes and eromenos have gender implications at all.

The Uses and Abuses of Historicism: Halperin and Shelley on the Otherness of Ancient Greek Sexuality 2006

Halperin concedes that there is reciprocal emotion between the erastes and eromenos, but he draws the line at sexual desire.

The Uses and Abuses of Historicism: Halperin and Shelley on the Otherness of Ancient Greek Sexuality 2006

For Davidson, buggery only became a problem under certain contexts like commerce, and the roles of erastes and eromenos do not have any necessary gender implications.

The Uses and Abuses of Historicism: Halperin and Shelley on the Otherness of Ancient Greek Sexuality 2006

Davidson concludes that "the terminology of erastes and eromenos says nothing in itself about penetration" (41).

The Uses and Abuses of Historicism: Halperin and Shelley on the Otherness of Ancient Greek Sexuality 2006

Of course, you'll hear that of course they were lovers since in ancient Greece, the erastes-eromenos relationship blah blah blah.

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