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of years, and an older youth (neaniskos) could take a younger one Though all such relationships were by definition [[homoerotic]] in nature, the individuals ...

...take a younger one as his beloved.<ref>Homoeroticism in the Biblical World By Martti Nissinen, Kirsi Stjerna; p67</ref> In some of these cases both membe ...men with ordinary, healthy desires. The nature of the relationships ranged from overtly sexual to what is now referred to (inaccurately) as platonic, in ac ...