And he take pains to trace Wilde's homosexuality primarily to the literary precedents he discovered in his classical studies at Oxford -- the Greek ideal of a "paederastic" love of an older, intellectual mentor and an acolyte. From Wordnik.com. [Wilde in the Stacks] Reference
Europe has improved relations between men and women, neither paederastic acts nor homosexual beings can now exist. From Wordnik.com. [The Uses and Abuses of Historicism: Halperin and Shelley on the Otherness of Ancient Greek Sexuality] Reference
(On catching sight of us, they attempted to seduce us with paederastic wantonness, and one wretch, with his clothes girded up, assaulted. From Wordnik.com. [Satyricon] Reference
(On catching sight of us, they attempted to seduce us with paederastic wantonness, and one wretch, with his clothes girded up, assaulted Ascyltos, and, having thrown him down upon a couch, attempted to gore him from above. From Wordnik.com. [The Satyricon — Complete] Reference
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