1. Pederasty Plus… Sexuality, Ethnicity, Masculinity

2. Agenda Adventures in Critical Thinking What Does Halperin Say? Recap and Update Definitions, Theories, Practices Pederasty Concepts and Terms Choose Your Lenses Butler or Foucault? 19-Sep-13Ancient Sexuality and Gender2

3. Adventures in Critical Thinking What Does Halperin Say?

4. constructionism v. essentialism essentialism is… sexuality is inherent in biological structure essentialists: sexuality is unchanging constructionism is sexual categories as… environmentally conditioned social-cultural environment not constantly changing 19-Sep-13Ancient Sexuality and Gender4

5. The “Debate” Essentialism Sexual categories as Preference-focused Culturally-historically constant Biologically determined Cognitively significant Constructionsim Sexual categories as Variably focused Culturally-historically situated Socially conditioned Subjectively significant 19-Sep-13Ancient Sexuality and Gender5 David Halperin. “‘Homosexuality’: A Cultural Construct (An Exchange with Richard Schneider).” In One Hundred Years of Homosexuality (1990).

6. Recap and Update Definitions, Theories, Practices

7. Definitions: What is…? gender (OED on…)(OED on…) physical sex that a person identifies with subjectivity v social perception sex v gender sex = biological category gender = social roles/associations sexuality (OED on…)(OED on…) preference in ones taste for their desires the essence of acknowledgement of oneself as possessing sexual desires left out preference definition based on acts 19-Sep-13Ancient Sexuality and Gender7

8. “Psychol. and Sociol. (orig. U.S.). The state of being male or female as expressed by social or cultural distinctions and differences, rather than biological ones; the collective attributes or traits associated with a particular sex, or determined as a result of one's sex. Also: a (male or female) group characterized in this way.” (OED 3.b.) OED on Gender

9. “Sexual nature, instinct, or feelings; the possession or expression of these.” (2.) “A person's sexual identity in relation to the gender to which he or she is typically attracted; the fact of being heterosexual, homosexual, or bisexual; sexual orientation.” (5.) OED on Sexuality

10. Butler / Foucault (compare/contrast) Butler Performed gender/sexuality Normativity challenged by deviance… Foucault Gender/sex performance art Normativity navigated by “free” actors… 19-Sep-13Ancient Sexuality and Gender10

11. Foucault Part 1: “Moral Problematization” Aphrodisia (sexual pleasure) Natural Need-fulfilling Excess-vulnerable Use (chrēsis) criteria Moderation v. excess enkrateia v. akrateia sophrosunē v. akolasia Role criteria, timeliness (kairos) 19-Sep-13Ancient Sexuality and Gender11

12. “Sexual-Social Isomorphism” male~female masculine~feminine penetrator~penetrated active~passive dominant~submissive senior (in status)~junior (in status) moderate (sōphrōn)~immoderate (akolastos) free~slave aka “asymmetry hypothesis”

13. Pederasty Concepts and Terms

14. Vocabulary of Pederasty… affect eros eunoia philia kharis actors erastes eromenos paidika kalos k’agathos kinaidos euruproktos katapugon values sophrosune v. akolasia enkrateia v. akrasia andreia v. malakia 19-Sep-13Ancient Sexuality and Gender14

15. Rooster gift (Attic RF) ho pais kalos, “the boy is attractive”

16. Choose Your Lenses Butler or Foucault?

17. Greek: “I am Eurymedon” Scythian: “I am bent over” Athenian Wine Jug circa 460 BCE

18. Ps-Demosthenes: Erotic Essay Basic info Mid 300s (?) Athens Anonymous Rhetorical show piece Analysis Prologue (“erotic part”) Praise Instruction

19. Quotes (choose your lenses) “[Because] most erotic compositions attach shame … to those about whom they are written, [I have] taken precautions” (1) “… it it is of the utmost importance for young men … to possess beauty in respect of person, self-discipline in respect of soul, … manliness in respect of both, and … charm in respect of speech.” (2) 19-Sep-13Ancient Sexuality and Gender19