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Finally, a word about female homosexuality. There was in Rome no equivalent to the Greek thiasos where girls were encouraged to explore their sexual feelings for each other prior to getting married. Perhaps if we had any female testimony about the matter our view would be different. But our only references come from men, and these are very few. Those that do exist suggest that men disapproved, that “such behavior was considered ‘masculine’ and unnatural’.”
Games of Venus: An Anthology of Greek and Roman Erotic Verse from Sappho to Ovid
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