Fierce

The first step in arriving at a proper appreciation of things is to work from the facts,
and accept that things are what they are. In this respect, Caitlyn Jenner is not a
woman, she is a transgender woman. This said, the pictures in Vanity Fair are
indeed stunning, a wondrous coming together of Annie L's skills as a photographer,
the stylists' efforts for their subject, and Caitlyn's physique.

I really have not much to offer Caitlyn herself, only my recognition of the difficult
road she has travelled. But I am bent on reflecting on how social movements - and
the LGBT is one - are often introduced, lived through and later looked back on in
markedly different terms for each phase.

This can be said of pederastry, as practiced in Ancient Greece: it appeared at a time
when the citizens of Greece were starting to live and interact in cities, and gave rise
to institutions where the elder man and his young lover could be seen in public - such
as the symposium - while women weresocially secluded in the home. Indeed, we  are
told that the young man might be impervious to the seductiveness of the elderly one,
would receive gifts and other signs of courtship but not respond.Acts of actual penetration
were frowned on, (and use of slaves fore this purpose forbidden).

By the 4th C BC, Socrates praises chastity in the relationship, and descries how to
achieve it. While fathers would hire pedagogues to protect their young men from
unwanted advances. Plutarch, looking back on this phase AD, gave the opinion that
it was meant to calm the fierceness of young men.

Perhaps were in a moment when it is necessary to calm the fierceness of women.
You tell me...

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As for Roman Society:
"So long as you abstain from married women, widows, virgins(young women), young men and free-condition children, love what you will".   Plautus