Is it a (((historical fact))) that the Spartan men were fucking each other when away from women, or is it one big propagated lie?
>>3193394
It is from Plutarch. So take it with several grains of salt
>>3193394
Athenians wrote what they wanted about their arch-nemesis Sparta, and it is basically Athenian records that gives us all those Spartan homo stories.
However the Athenian aristocrats that wrote these stories actually idolized homosex and Sparta, thus wrote a lot about how noble and homosex the Spartans were, and if only Athenians became as homosex, noble and monarchial as the Spartans, the Athenians would win the Peleponnesian war.
In the text "symposium" by Plato a wide array of Athenian aristocrats discuss love and they mainly discuss man-boy love. Heterosexual love is almost forgotten. However the conclusion of the text is that a man that truly loves a boy wouldn't abuse him, so only a "platonic" love is true love, where the man tries to make the boy strong and wise and not his sissy trap.