Pausanias, you perv.

[ZombieNixon]

We have a name for people like you...it's called NAMBLA. :grr: Fuck you, I hate you. :rant:

[Deja Q]

1. Is this a sex thread?

[ZombieNixon]

4. No. It's a philosophy thread.

[xchrom]

2. what happened?

[ZombieNixon]

3. I'm reading Plato's "Symposium" for philosophy class.

Pausanias gives a speech essentially asking for lawful protection for child molesters. x( (Yeah, yeah, I know, it was ancient Greek culture, I don't care, it's still gross :puke:) Fortunately, he gets shot down by Eryximachus.

[xchrom]

7. whew -- i thought you were really

calling somebody out.

[ZombieNixon]

8. No, well, technically, I am, but he's been dead for a few millennia.

:)

[xchrom]

9. that's actually cute.

[ZombieNixon]

10. What's actually cute?

:shrug: :)

[xchrom]

11. that you would be outraged all this time later.

even though it's a debate in a book -- it's cool.

[tjwmason]

12. Plato's full of crap like that.

It was quite an accepted part of ancient Greek behaviour, as you say, and so philosophers thought nothing of commenting on it. I'm with you though :puke:

[Fenris]

5. Not a very Platonic relationship he had, was it?

;)

[ZombieNixon]

6. Locking? No philosophical sex threads?

;)

[Random_Australian]

13. What is a NAMBLA?

[tjwmason]

14. North American Man-Boy Love Association

Which is about as sick as it sounds I fear. :puke:

[Random_Australian]

15. yep. I'm out of this thread forever.

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