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...00 years and it's origins can be traced back to the [[Ancient Crete|Minoan civilization]] 5000 years ago and may go back as far as the'' Middle Paleolithic age'' ( ...and Ganymede (CZG) carries forward these ideals of the founders of western civilization, and of more recent exemplars such as Jesus and John, Hadrian and Antinous, ...

There have existed a wide range of western and non-western societies that have tolerated or encouraged intergenerational sexuality. Mo *:"As mentioned earlier, our Western civilization has not always believed that children should be protected from all sexual c ...

...ality differ between societies. Generally speaking, [[Western Civilization|Western]] cultures apply tighter constraints and heavier penalties than others do. ...

...and not only in the West! Pederasty is inseparable from the high points of Western culture - ancient Greece and the Renaissance." Thorstad describes the moder ...

...female circumci­sion"), tattooing, mutilation, and the like - scarcely the Western ideal of an unin­hibited adolescence. All these considerations reveal only how far modern Western civilization is from a solution to the "sexual problem," a solution that must take into ...

...f Recovery: The Fifteenth Century'' (Vol. X, ''The Development of Western Civilization'' series), with [[Jerah Johnson]]. New York: Cornell University Press, 19 ...

...ted, as if the sexual mores of classical Greece, medieval Japan or Islamic civilization could be adequately comprehended under a heading such as 'child abuse'. Thi ...tive component of Sambian culture offers little support to the argument of Western paedophiles. ...

...al=The New Republic |volume=228 |issue=11 |date=2003-03-24}})</ref> In the Western world, many of these laws have been overturned in the 21st century or are n ===Sodomy laws in the Middle Ages (from the collapse of Roman civilization in the 5th century CE to the period of the Renaissance)=== ...

...k''' and '''shoeblack'''. While the role is deprecated in much of Western civilization, shining shoes is an important source of income for many children and famil ...

...and to-be-continued entries were created. They deal with [[Civilization_5| Civilization 5]], ====Arabic-Muslim civilization==== ...

...ainst permitting westerners access to boy prostitutes ("do not indulge the Western barbarian with all our best favors"), Europeans were increasingly welcomed ...he Spaniards in Mexico. The custom died out with the collapse of the Aztec civilization. ...

...ects]] reflecting an already formalized practice date to the late [[Minoan civilization]], around 1650 BC.<ref>Bruce L. Gerig, "Homosexuality in the Ancient Near E ...

In terms of language and customs, Japanese civilization has been very strongly influenced by neighboring countries (China, Korea, a ...mmodore Perry's expedition to force an "opening up" of Japan to trade with Western countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_Expedition</ref> This was th ...

...Asian cultures until recent times.<ref>Crompton, Louis: Homosexuality and Civilization, First Harvard University Press paperback edition, 2006 pp.([213], 411 & '' ...respect to his faith and Eros.<ref>{{cite book |title = Homosexuality and civilization | last=Crompton| first=Louis| publisher = Belknap Press of Harvard Universi ...

...here a boy can learn all he needs from his father, but that people of high civilization require the erotic attraction of boys to motivate experienced men to teach Historian [[Marshall Hodgson]] wrote that in medieval Islamic civilization, ...

...here a boy can learn all he needs from his father, but that people of high civilization require the erotic attraction of boys to motivate experienced men to teach ...ervasive that it has been an obstacle for translations of these works into western languages. As Dick Davis comments, "A further cultural barrier, and one tha ...

...ects]] reflecting an already formalized practice date to the late [[Minoan civilization]], around 1650 BC.^[[[12]]] According to Plato,<sup>[[[13]]]</sup ...ing into pederastic relations with the free-born boys. In medieval Islamic civilization, pederastic relations "were so readily accepted in upper-class circles that ...

fault for the current wave of intolerance sweeping the western world. information (all of which clearly shows our's to be the only major civilization ...

This transformation of people has been described as the process of civilization (N. Elias) or bourgeoisification (van Ussel), depending on whether it was c ...ulture but which we condescendingly call primitive based on their level of civilization could give us suggestions as to how sex-positive parenting and an integrati ...

...ntury BC (c. 484–425 BC). Widely referred to as "The Father of History" in Western culture. He was the first historian known to collect his materials systemat ...ave been. His accounts of [[India]] are among the oldest records of Indian civilization by an outsider. <ref>[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.ht ...