Essay from the year 2017 in the subject Sociology - Relationships and Family, grade: 1,3, language: English, abstract: This paper aims to offer an explanation for the fact that "homosexuality" as we would label it today, the sexual intercourse between two individuals of the male sex, was condoned - at least in a polis such as Athens - and even developed into some kind of social institution that carried adolescent boys over to manhood. The most difficult...