{"id":828,"date":"2017-10-31T02:43:32","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T23:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/?p=828"},"modified":"2017-10-31T02:43:32","modified_gmt":"2017-10-30T23:43:32","slug":"sexual-vocabulary-in-ancient-greece-a-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/828\/sexual-vocabulary-in-ancient-greece-a-note\/","title":{"rendered":"Sexual vocabulary in ancient Greece (a note)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amy asks a question that might be of interest to the readers of this blog:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the old greek language is there a difference in usage of words in saying,<br \/>\na man that sleeps with a boy? &#8211; a man that sleeps with a young man? &#8211; a man that sleeps with a man? &#8211; a man that sleeps with a male prostitute?<br \/>\nOr are all the same word? &#8211; And, what is the difference between pornos and malakos, since both can be male prostitutes, but there must be a difference since the words are different.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dear Amy, I don&#8217;t think there existed such elaborate distinctions. There was a distinction between <em>erastis<\/em> (lover) and <em>eromenos <\/em>(the one who is being loved), describing a relationship usually between an adult and a boy, which was normally <strong>not<\/strong> a sexual one, but just a closer friendship and guidance. There was also\u00a0the word <em>kinaidos<\/em> about a passive homosexual.<\/p>\n<p><em>Pornos <\/em>means essentially someone who doesn&#8217;t respect his\/her body, making of it an object of lust,\u00a0while <em>malakos <\/em>means someone who yields to various urges without examination, usually unable to suffer the\u00a0hardships that some decisions may require.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amy asks a question that might be of interest to the readers of this blog: In the old greek language is there a difference in usage of words in saying, a man that sleeps with a boy? &#8211; a man that sleeps with a young man? &#8211; a man that sleeps with a man? &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_disable_autopaging":false},"categories":[317],"tags":[62,278,964,2710,2707,2709,2706,2708],"class_list":["post-828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-greek-language","tag-ancient-greece","tag-friendship","tag-guidance","tag-hardships","tag-male-prostitutes","tag-pornos","tag-sexual-vocabulary","tag-urges"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}