[oneoff786]

Yeah, mostly rich older dudes fucking young boys. Greece was not some idyllic free love society. It was just that being a top was super manly and being a bottom was not. You didn’t have wealthy men in openly gay equal relationships with other men.

[Der_Einzige]

Pretty sure poor people weren't being allowed into the most elite unit in the Greek world (since you had to buy your armor!)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_Band_of_Thebes

[oneoff786]

From your own source

> According to Plutarch, the 300 hand-picked men were chosen by Gorgidas purely for ability and merit, regardless of social class.[18] It was composed of 150 male couples,[15] each pair consisting of an older erastês (ἐραστής, "lover") and a younger erômenos (ἐρώμενος, "beloved").

Older dudes with their designated younger bottoms.

I’ll also recommend https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_in_ancient_Gre...

Over a niche historical anecdote

> During Plato's time there were some people who were of the opinion that homosexual sex was shameful in any circumstances. Indeed, Plato himself eventually came to hold this view. At one time he had written that same-sex lovers were far more blessed than ordinary mortals. He even gave them a headstart in the great race to get back to heaven, their mutual love refeathering their mottled wings. Later he seemed to contradict himself. In his ideal city, he says in his last, posthumously published work known as The Laws, homosexual sex will be treated the same way as incest. It is something contrary to nature, he insists, calling it "utterly unholy, odious-to-the-gods and ugliest of ugly things".[31]