Spartan pederasty?

[PMBardunias]

Well the fact is we can't be dogmatic. The extant source material would - to me - clearly indicate homo-erotic relationships as a part of Spartan life.

Homoerotic is not homosexual, a point that seems lost on so many authors. When commercials market perfume to women by having half-naked female models parade around the screen they are tapping into homoerotic imagery. Women find the image attractive and erotic. They do not want to have sex with her.

This is important because the image of boys "at the age when they are most beautiful" would have been equally likely to have been used by an ancient greek beer commercial as a pretty girl. They could assign eros equally.

There is a huge difference between saying that there was a homoerotic element to the link between "lovers" and assigning obligate intercourse.