5/28/2023 0 Comments The symposium socrates![]() ![]() Plato includes sleeping together naked, embracing, hugging, caressing, and kissing of all parts of the body as justifiable expressions of true "Platonic love". ![]() But if we read the originals, we will discover what is seldom talked about in the schools.Įven within the Symposium, the definitionn of the ideal love between males excludes only genital contact leading to orgasm. Too often we read only extracts and summaries of Plato's works without realizing that these have been extracted and suimmarized by anti-homosexual philosophers and teachers who, until relatively recently, could not tolerate anything that would undermine their own heterosexual ideals. ![]() Plato never condemned the physical aspects of homosexual love outright until he was past the age of eighty and wrote the Laws, when his own desire was understandably on the wane. ![]()
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