Talk:Anthrosexual
AfD and future creation[edit]
This article was held in a AfD discussion, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Anthrosexual, which lead to it's deletion. I feel that in the future this article should be recreated when proper sourcing is established. Currently this article redirects to Pomosexual, though the general concept is the same, the name and path that leads to the concept are completely different. But in the mean time, this would be the best thing for people looking for information on the subject.--Cooljuno411 (talk) 04:18, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
My favorite passage from Undefined Sexuality/Anthrosexual was:
While it was the norm in Greece and Rome that the younger partner was passive and the older parter active in a male-male relationship, there is (especially from the Roman period) evidence that older men preferred the passive role. Martial describes, for example, the case of an older man who played the passive role and let a younger slave occupy the active role. Often it was also assumed that only the active participant gained pleasure from sexual intercourse. In general, the passive role was equated with the role of a woman and therefore felt to be rather low. Suetonius reported that the Emperor Nero, in taking the passive sexual role with the freedmen Doryphorus, imitated the screams and whimpering of a young woman. Men taking the passive role were often liable to be accused to take too much care of their appearance to attract and please potential active partners. Such men were usually shown in a negative light, having the word kinaidos / cinaedus applied to them (which could also be applied to eunuchs).
That needs to go somewhere on Wikipedia albeit with sources. -- BpEps - t@lk 23:29, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
- It actually is on wikipedia: Homosexuality in ancient Rome - Roles and preferences. --Cooljuno411 (talk) 04:51, 11 April 2008 (UTC)