What makes the act of engulfing less active than the act of piercing?
Yours,
Eric
Carrol Cox wrote:
> jf noonan wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Carrol Cox wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Classical scholars are still at war over this, but some (many) argue that in
> > > ancient greece the division was not between straight and homo but between
> > > active and passive.
> > >
> > > Carrol
> >
> > I'm fascinated by this active/passive thing. Which kind of sex is
> > active and which is passive?
> >
>
> Women are passive, period. In male-male (usually, older male, younger male)
> relations, the one who inserts the penis is active, the insertee is passive. Some
> classicists argue that the active one only comes between the thighs of the passive
> one, others claim complete anal intercourse. In any case, among at least the
> aristocracy this was seen as the primary form of education: the lover educated the
> younger (passive) one. Socrates was very fond of young boys.
>
> Carrol