CRIM 316 Chapter 2: Chapter 2- Historical Perspectives on Sexual Behavior
7 Dec 2015
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Chapter 2: historical perspectives on sexual behavior the concept of normal sexual behavior is a socially constructed reality that is continually adapting. No word equivalent to homosexuality until 1896. Most prominent philosophical depictions of homosexual relationships occurs in plato"s symposium. Men also wrote love poems about younger boys, particularly those in late adolescence, and sexual activity between older men and younger boys was acceptable and considered beautiful. Men were not considered homosexual in the sense of the word today. Acceptable to have relations with men and women at the same time, same-sex relationships were supplemented with the sexual relationship with a wife. Women weren"t respected viewed as mad, hysterical, dangerous to men common for young boys to be sold into slavery, and socially prominent men would have slaves for their own sexual use. Boy brothels were also found in rome. Romans believed that sexual relationships with young boys would aid their mental development.
