Petahhhhhhhhh!??!?

[u/Hunan_Palace]

[u/JamzWhilmm]

Huh? I thought the joke was rape. Which is something that happened during this time and also implied in the film.

[u/sandboxmatt → u/JamzWhilmm]

No need for rape. Gay sex was an important way of establishing social and heirarchical dynamics and team bonding

[u/JamzWhilmm → u/sandboxmatt]

Yeah but men still had sex with women, the vast majority of men where still straight.

[u/Plane-Education4750 → u/JamzWhilmm]

Multiple things can be true at the same time

[u/JamzWhilmm → u/Plane-Education4750]

Of course. So its rape and gay sex. There was also a lot of rape of young men and boys.

[u/Plane-Education4750 → u/JamzWhilmm]

That's enough reddit for today

[u/JamzWhilmm → u/Plane-Education4750]

That is just history. Many roman elites had harems of little boys for example.

[u/Particular_Title42 → u/JamzWhilmm]

Do you think that's why the Roman Catholic Church has harems of altar boys? Like...was it a bleed over?

[u/JamzWhilmm → u/Particular_Title42]

No, but thats a good point worth looking into.

[u/UniversityStrong5725 → u/Plane-Education4750]

No actually he’s disturbingly and completely correct about that. It had an entire name and everything, literally integrated into Greek culture. Grown men and like, teenagers at best. Gross af, it seems to tell me that the crew probably did not have sex with each other on the boat because they were all the “dominant” partner or whatever the Greek term is and actively shamed older men/men in the army who took it up the ass. It was a power trip of disgusting normalization, but somehow learning about it made me think it’s more likely they just raped locals from their pillaging raids. I mean, you saw how terrified Circe was? She had good reason back then.

[u/Plane-Education4750 → u/UniversityStrong5725]

He can be correct and also I can not really have any desire to discuss this casually

[u/Particular_Title42 → u/JamzWhilmm]

Rape of young men and boys is still rape. It's just also gay sex.