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Norman Simplicity

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Monday, June 22, 2015

Blood-dimmed tide

Laws

Athenian
Even at present, as we are aware, most men, however lawless they are, are effectively and strictly precluded from sexual commerce with beautiful persons,—and that not against their will, but with their own most willing consent.

Megillus
On what occasions do you mean?

Athenian
Whenever any man has a brother or sister who is beautiful. So too in the case of a son or daughter, the same unwritten law is most effective in guarding men from sleeping with them, either openly or secretly, or wishing to have any connection with them,—nay, most men never so much as feel any desire for such connection.

Megillus
That is true.

Athenian
Is it not, then, by a brief sentence that all such pleasures are quenched?

Megillus
What sentence do you mean?

Athenian
The sentence that these acts are by no means holy, but hated of God and most shamefully shameful.

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