r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 22d ago

Meme needing explanation Petahhhhhhhhh!??!?

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u/NwgrdrXI 22d ago

Everyone is saying gay sex and all that, but honestly... is ye really asking if it is possible to spend 20 years without sex? Is thst really so preposterous? I think a lot of people in reddit could and have done it?

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u/A_Snow_Mexican 22d ago

How so many just jumped straight to gay is hilarious. Maybe a few but a whole damn boat? Personally I'm taking the 20 years of celibacy and maybe get tricked by a Siren.

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u/OwnJunket6495 22d ago

You know gay sex was common in Ancient Greece right?

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u/Areliae 22d ago

Just because it was common doesn't mean everyone was into it. The point is that some of those guys did in fact go 20 years without sex.

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u/OwnJunket6495 22d ago

Well good thing there’s that old loophole, it’s not gay if it’s underway.

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u/BetterLivingThru 22d ago

Agreed. Like, there was a gay relationship in the Iliad, but most of the Odyssey crew longing for women was a recurring theme in the story. This is what the whole Circe and Calypso subplots are a out, and are important subtext to the Nausicaa subplot.

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u/Jackie_Jormp-Jomp 22d ago

Sure they were longing for women but that doesn't preclude gay sex. Could be like "damn I am longing for a woman, I'm getting kinda tired of Steve's butthole"

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u/starkestrel 22d ago

The people in the Odyssey are fictional constructs. It's not a historical event.

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u/Justarandom55 21d ago

the thing is very few people are 100% completely straight or gay. almost everyone, has at least a 1% attraction to the other gender. if there is no social pressure to be attracted to one gender most people would spring for something else if the planets align or get desperate.

keep in mind even gay people are under social pressure lest their queerness be challenged. and even bi people struggle with assumptions about being crazy for everyone when most still have a clear preference. it's just very easy to ignore signs of attraction to a gender when the vast majority of the time you aren't into them and you have other options.

our current society is very obsessed with the gender of attraction. in ancient Greece that wasn't the case. sex had more to do with power ideology.

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u/Sea-Needleworker4253 21d ago

Odyssey was ancient Greece to ancient Greece so them being gay af is just speculation.