"'Not before Homosexuality,' whose entire argument that sexual relations in the ancient Roman world were "not before homosexuality" rests on the unshakable (if unvoiced and unexamined) presumption that passive males were the real homosexuals of antiquity and that ancient discourses of male passivity were therefore really discourses of homosexuality. The sexually insertive male partners of Richlin's cinaedi, who are not comparably vilified by our sources, somehow don't seem to enter into her thinking on the subject for inclusion in her concept of homosexuality."
-- page 177
How to Do the History of Homosexuality
By David M. Halperin
Published by University of Chicago Press, 2002
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