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david konstan is the John Rowe Workman Distinguished Professor of Classics and Professor of Comparative Literature at Brown University. Among his recent books are Sexual Symmetry: Love in the Ancient Novel and Related Genres (Princeton University Press, 1994), Greek Comedy and Ideology (Oxford University Press, 1995), Friendship in the Classical World (Cambridge University Press, 1997), and Pity Transformed(Duckworth, 2001). He is currently working on a book titled The Emotions of the Ancient Greeks.

Klappentext: This lavishly illustrated book brings together, for the first time, all of the different ways in which vase-painting portrays or refers to pederasty, from scenes of courtship, foreplay, and sex, to scenes of Zeus with his boy-love Ganymede, to painted inscriptions praising the beauty of boys. The book shows how painters used the language of vase-painting to cast pederasty in an idealizing light, portraying it as part of a world in which beautiful elite males display praiseworthy attitudes, such as moderation, and engage in approved activities, such as hunting, athletics, and the symposium. The book also incorporates a comprehensive catalogue of relevant vase-paintings, compiled by noted archaeologist Keith DeVries. It is the most comprehensive treatment available of an institution that has few modern parallels.

In this paper I try to analyze, on the one hand, the intricate institutional, political and intellectual Greek pederasty framework; on the other hand, the Platonic response to it. Perhaps originally pederasty was a strongly regulated rite of passage; subsequently became a theme for poets and an element of the aristocratic self-awareness. Plato know that the tradition of Sparta and Crete, as well as poets, legitimize pederastic practices. Maybe he was not alien to them and, in any case, he was moving in intellectual circles which sought a synthesis of Socratic teaching and tradition and poets. These intellectual circles inserted the pederasty in a broader educational framework and removed all sexual connotations. Plato also knows that Socratic teachings are difficult to fulfill, that there is something important in them and that their fulfillment demands renunciations. That the harmony of the soul with itself demands renunciations, not imply the radical abandon of any erotic elements. Therefore the question of pederasty is central to Plato's philosophy, because this question show clearly the difficulties outlined above: the pederasty becomes a miniature model which poses the political problem that really matters to Plato, the problem discussed in the dialogs examined in this paper and that reaches its highest expression in the Laws: the control of desires (as far as possible and by all available means) as a fundamental element in the construction of this regime "that, if it should come into being, everything would be good for the city in which it came into being" (Rep. 471 c). ; En el presente trabajo intento analizar, por una parte, el complejo entramado institucional, político e intelectual tejido en torno a la pederastia griega; por otra, la respuesta platónica ante él. Quizá en sus orígenes la pederastia fuera un rito iniciático sometido a una fuerte reglamentación; posteriormente se transformó en un tema cantado por los poetas y en un elemento de la autocomprensión aristocrática. Platón sabe que la tradición de sus admiradas Esparta y Creta, así como los poetas, ofrecen cierta cobertura ideológica a las prácticas pederasticas; tal vez no fuera ajeno a ellas y, en todo caso, se movía en círculos que intentaban difíciles síntesis entre las enseñanzas socráticas y la tradición y los poetas, insertando la pederastia en un marco educativo más amplio e intentando desterrar de ella cualquier connotación sexual. Platón sabe asimismo que las enseñanzas socráticas son difíciles de cumplir, que en ellas hay algo importante y que su cumplimiento pide renuncias. Ahora bien, que la armonía del alma consigo misma pida renuncias no implica desterrar radicalmente todo elemento erótico. De aquí la centralidad de la cuestión de la pederastia en el pensamiento platónico, porque en ella se ve con especial claridad las dificultades esbozadas en las líneas anteriores, como si la pederastia fuera una especie de modelo en miniatura donde poder plantear el problema político que verdaderamente interesa a Platón, al que apuntan los diálogos examinados en este artículo y que alcanza su máxima expresión en las Leyes: el control de los deseos (en la medida de lo posible y por todos los medios posibles) como elemento fundamental en la construcción de esa organización política que, "si existiera, todo serían bienes para la ciudad en la que se diera" (Rep. 471 c).

Foucault has been quoted as a great intellectual contributor to feminism and education, despite his defense of decriminalizing rape and pederasty. Since the MeToo movement, there is an increasing criticism of Foucault's persona and works. However, in order to avoid recognizing their mistake, some authors say that Foucault's defense of sexual violence was unknown before. This article shows this is not backed by evidence. Data was collected via interviews with 19 subjects with diverse profiles, employing the communicative methodology. The results shed light on the fact that some professors who have included Foucault's works in their classes hid Foucault's position in favor of sexual violence to their students. Interviewees state that there are several reasons why they think those professors hid this fact: a) the most critical thinker; b) the transgressor; c) a relativist intellectual; d) "a shield to hide behind"; and e) the idea that the intellectual must be separated from the person. This study indicates that in transmitting those images and hiding or even justifying Foucault instead of critically analyzing the implication of his works and his defense of sexual violence, perpetuating its justification, such professors act as his "hooligans".

1. Pederasty : an integration of empirical, historical, sociological, cross-cultural, cross-species, and evolutionary perspectives / Bruce Rind -- 2. More speech or less? Censoring social science / Patrick O'Neill and Janice Best -- 3. Intergenerational sexualities : a case study on the colonization of late modern sexual subjects and researcher agendas / Richard Yuill -- 4. Blinded by science : a critique of Rind's views on pederasty / Richard D. McAnulty and Lester W. Wright Jr. -- 5. A critique of the academic process and application of evolutionary theory in pederasty : an integration of empirical, historical, sociological, cross-cultural, cross-species, and evolutionary perspectives by Dr. Bruce Rind / L. Eric Alcorn -- 6. Same sex, different ages : on pederasty in gay history / D.H. Mader and Gert Hekma -- 7. "Here to you, Mr. Robinson" : men who have sexual relations with male minors / David F. Greenberg -- 8. Harming children in the name of "child protection" : how minors who have sex with other minors are abused by the law and therapy / Andrew Heller -- 9. The sex offender system : punishing homo sacer, the new internal enemy / Thomas K. Hubbard -- Blinded by politics and morality : a reply to McAnulty and Wright / Bruce Rind.

Examining the social, medical and cultural history of male homosexuality in Spain, this book looks at it from the time homosexuality came to be an issue of medical, legal and cultural concern. Research into homosexuality in Spain is in its infancy. The last ten or fifteen years have seen a proliferation of studies on gender in Spain but much of this work has concentrated on women's history, literature and femininity. In contrast to existing research which concentrates on literature and literary figures, "Los Invisibles" focuses on the change in cultural representation of same-sex activity of through medicalisation, social and political anxieties about race and the late emergence of homosexual sub-cultures in the last quarter of the twentieth century. As such, this book constitutes an analysis of discourses and ideas from a social history and medical history position. Much of the research for the book was supported by a grant from the Wellcome Trust to research the medicalisation of homosexuality in Spain.

Kim Townsend, Manhood at Harvard: William James and OthersNaomi Segal, André Gide: Pederasty and PedagogyTrev Lynn Broughton, Men of Letters, Writing Lives: Masculinity and Literary Auto/Biography

"Historical Views of Homosexuality: Ancient Greece" published on by Oxford University Press.

1. John Macmurray : Christ and Marx -- 2. Kenneth Ingram : the Christian and the sexual : homosexuality, bisexuality, pederasty -- 3. Olaf Stapledon : religious but not Christian -- 4. Sir Richard Acland : the conversion of a liberal M.P. -- 5. The moment of common wealth.