No apologies! I’d love to hear more. While Athens certainly had sexual deviancy, I don’t think it ever attempted to valorize it *as* sexual deviancy.
In terms of the past, this seems more akin to Weimar if anything. And the writings of the Marquis de Sade and, more recently, Jean Genet (especially with the inversion Rufo mentions).
No apologies! I’d love to hear more. While Athens certainly had sexual deviancy, I don’t think it ever attempted to valorize it *as* sexual deviancy.
In terms of the past, this seems more akin to Weimar if anything. And the writings of the Marquis de Sade and, more recently, Jean Genet (especially with the inversion Rufo mentions).
I’d say that these tendencies grow -on- the western tradition but not -from- it necessarily . It’s fundamentally parasitic.
No apologies! I’d love to hear more. While Athens certainly had sexual deviancy, I don’t think it ever attempted to valorize it *as* sexual deviancy.
In terms of the past, this seems more akin to Weimar if anything. And the writings of the Marquis de Sade and, more recently, Jean Genet (especially with the inversion Rufo mentions).
I’d say that these tendencies grow -on- the western tradition but not -from- it necessarily . It’s fundamentally parasitic.