Comments by "Seven Proxies" (@sevenproxies4255) on "S3X In Ancient Greece? Weird History's Video Is HORRIBLE" video.

Shakespeare had a fair bit of raunchy themes and jokes in a very christian England too. We may consider stage plays to be a form of "high class culture" today, but in Shakespeare's time and before it, stage plays were like the television shows of their time. Quality and seriousness in themes varied greatly. Some plays were basically indistinguishable from sitcoms of today.
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This reminds me of all that politically charged interpretation of the Spartans and how older mentors would habitually do the dirty deed with their proteges, which makes little sense. First of all, Spartan citizens were members of the only respectable families. Spartans also took a dim view of men who adopted a passive role in the bedsheets. Therefore it makes no sense to assume that Spartans had a norm of sodomizing young, male members of respectable families since it's basically the same as emasculating them in front of everyone before they had even reached adulthood. In reality there's hardly any historical sources to corroborate this intepretation of the relationships between mentors and proteges in ancient sparta. It's basically just a case of that old leftwing trope of reading a bunch of homoeroticisim into strong male friendships amd camraderie (like how people claim that Frodo had a romantic relationship Sam in LotR, even though Tolkien was a devout catholic)
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@user-df4kf6fg7h It's just hyperbole and lefty politics with the samurai as well. Little basis in history. Zero historical records.
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Not sure if he knows what a concubine is. Concubinage is a legal sexual and monogamous relationship between two people who cannot get married. Usually concubines were taken for the purpose of producing more children. A child born due to a concuninage was considered a legitimate heir, whereas a child born out of wedlock or concubinage was legally considered as a bastard and not a legitimate heir. So concubines and their children were leagues above prostitutes in social status.
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