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Originally Posted by pbradley

I remember loling about some sidestepping Plato made about pedagogy and pederasty. I can't remember which dialogue. Symposium, maybe?

Certainly, though, the parallels don't justify molestation and rape.

wasn't that phaedrus, where socrates takes his favorite boy out of the city walls and they sit around under some kind of shady tree and talk about love, phaedrus tries to seduce the old man, and socrates promotes chaste love over fucking?

i also remember, somewhere, that alcibiades is pissed off at socrates cuz they lied together and socrates refused to fuck him-- he "behaved like his father" or some such thing.