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This type of relationship is exemplified by the institution of pederasty among the Classical Greeks or those engaged in by novice samurai with more experienced warriors; southern Chinese, and Congolese, that in ancient Greece, egalitarian relationships co-existed (albeit less privileged) with the institution of pederasty, and fascination with adolescents can also be found in modern sexuality, both opposite-sex and same-sex.

Egalitarian same-sex relationships are the principal form present in the Western world, while age- and gender-structured same-sex relationships are less common (though they are still significant and coexist with the postmodern egalitarian form in Latin America, where male heterosexuals and "butch" i.e.


In the Chinese literary tradition, works such as Bian er Zhai and Jin Ping Mei survived the many purges to record the homoerotic climate of their time.

One reason that the Knights Templar, a prominent military order, was abolished was that accusations of accusations of widespread sodomy had been levelled against the order; these allegations were probably fabricated, The record of same-sex love has been preserved through literature and art.


Plato's Symposium also gives readers commentary on the subject, at one point considering the claim that male-male love is superior to male-female love.