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[–]Musky༼⁠ ⁠つ⁠ ⁠◕⁠‿⁠◕⁠ ⁠༽⁠つ 🐈 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

They've already been at it for decades. They kind of poke it in a little every now and then, test the waters, but it's generally met with revulsion. I'd like to think that we have a biological instinct to not harm children, but there have been societies like the Greeks who thought every child and slave should be a fucktoy. Sodom and Gomorrah come to mind as famous cautionary tales as well. If it happened before it could conceivably happen again.

[–]QueenBread[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

You've never studied much about ancient history, isn't it? The ancient Greeks never said "child and slaves should be fuck toys". Watch less movies and study real history.

What the Greeks did was to be sexist and claim man+man was better than man+woman simply because women are inferior. What they also said was that an adult man having a sexual relationship with a teenager was a good idea if that meant the teen could be groomed into being a fiercer, better soldier. Some ancient Greek author even wrote the equivalent of a modern day's internet article, claiming that "it would be good to have homosexual soldiers because they would protect each other in the battlefield and they would not need to go back to their women".

[–]Musky༼⁠ ⁠つ⁠ ⁠◕⁠‿⁠◕⁠ ⁠༽⁠つ 🐈 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

You've never studied much about ancient history, isn't it? The ancient Greeks never said "child and slaves should be fuck toys". Watch less movies and study real history.

I don't claim to be an expert on ancient Greece, but that is my understanding of the factual history. The influence of pederasty on Greek culture of these periods was so prevalent that it has been called "the principal cultural model for free relationships between citizens." That article goes into detail on the slaves as well, at one point mentioning it was less socially acceptable.

[–]QueenBread[S] 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

Ah wow, a Wikipedia source! I guess my 5 fuckin' years of studying the actual ancient classics are now useless in front of it! After all, we all know a Wiki article anybody can edit is far more reliable than spending years reading the actual source material.

[–]Musky༼⁠ ⁠つ⁠ ⁠◕⁠‿⁠◕⁠ ⁠༽⁠つ 🐈 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I'm open to better sources, but "just trust me bro, I have a liberal arts degree" is honestly less compelling to me than a Wikipedia entry.

Wikipedia isn't great, it's just convienient.

[–]QueenBread[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

My degree is true, however. Which by the way, is not something I learnt in university. It's just basic -high school- knowledge. Back in my days, we used to study this stuff in my country. Then they started to say the classics are not important, and look where that is bringing us.

But hey, if you trust Wikipedia more, then lol. Be my guest and believe the magical world of slaves and fuck toys. You saw too many tv series.