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1. Alex (hermit@hermitmountain.top)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Mar-2023 03:04:56 JST Alex

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   @errante @Metamedia @orangelantern Let's not forget that it CLEARLY happened in a lesbian context too. Sappho gets memed and latched onto a lot by modern lesbians as a "literally me" but her situation actually wasn't atypical at all. Older women would frequently sexually instruct younger women and make love to them. Sappho had a husband, who knew what she was doing and was apparently fine with it, and who doubtless spent his life fucking breedable boys too. (Though I do definitely recognise that the name and account given of her husband is an imagined history of Roman origin. For fuck's sake, his name is a dick joke.)
   • Alex (hermit@hermitmountain.top)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Mar-2023 03:09:56 JST Alex

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     @Metamedia @errante @orangelantern Yeah that's what I said! Though that's the account of him as an actual person. AFAIK the idea that she was married is pretty commonly accepted on the basis that marriage served a social function between Greek noble families (of which she was a part, being VERY moneyed.)
     mental meltdown likes this.
   • Metamedia 👁 Let's Get Bionicle Together (LGBT) (metamedia@snowdin.town)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Mar-2023 03:09:58 JST Metamedia 👁 Let's Get Bionicle Together (LGBT)

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     @hermit @errante @orangelantern I thought that Sapphos husband was a joke (his name literally translates as dick allcock of the island of man).
     
     Literally the old version of "I have a boyfriend but he lives in Canada"