Greek love
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| + | '''Greek love''' is a relatively modern coinage (generally placed within quotation marks) intended as a reference to [[male bonding]] and intimate relations between males as practised in [[Ancient Greece]], as well as to its application and expression in more recent times, particularly in a 19th-century European context (See "Scholarly Examples of Its Use" below). The term is thus a [[synonym]] for [[pederasty]], though it has also been loosely applied to [[homosexual]] behaviour in general. | ||
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Greek love is a relatively modern coinage (generally placed within quotation marks) intended as a reference to male bonding and intimate relations between males as practised in Ancient Greece, as well as to its application and expression in more recent times, particularly in a 19th-century European context (See "Scholarly Examples of Its Use" below). The term is thus a synonym for pederasty, though it has also been loosely applied to homosexual behaviour in general.
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