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Pederasty was tolerated in many pre-modern societies around the globe: Ancient Greece famously, but also Japan and some Indian kingdoms, for example. Today we recognize it as very harmful. Is there any evidence of the trauma it must have left on the pre-modern children who were molested? NSFW

by /u/FelicianoCalamity in /r/AskHistorians

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