Did you know the Greeks invented sex?
Did you know the Greeks invented sex? Later the Italians invented it with women.
(Gerard Butler and Rodrigo Santoro)
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Hmmm, and how were babies made before that?
It is a cute lol celeb tho =)
Clay. What else?
Ha!
This is the most fun i’ve had on this site. ever.
FAIL
are you kidding me? Huge WIN!!! Although not really a pop culture reference, it’s definitely commenting on some historical cultural truths. Love it.
Please! The only thing that “Romans” did was to pervert sex even more. Not only did they do group sex (Roman Orgies), but they also had sex with animals. HUGE fail on this (non-) lol!
what od you mean pervert sex. That was the fun. modern culture takes fun out of sex by stupid impositions
I spoted the untolerant-religious dude,
Do I win a cookie?
“historical cultural truths”
-shakes head in disbelief-
I know!!1! One historian goes on tv and says he knows the truth and everyone believes it. My old history professor got really upset about this when he covered Sparta. There is no proof of any of that stuff.
My biggest concern is that “cultural truth” =/= “cultural stereotypes.”
Also, where does the Persian guy fit in, and how do we get to Italy from this pic?
I haven’t seen the movie, but the Spartan warriors (who were all male) would have sex with each other, because the phalanxes wouldn’t work unless you had the back of your neighbors in the phalanx, and so you had to REALLY like the guys next to you.
Sorry!! It’s no myth, it’s completely true. Older men usually “mentored” younger boys (of course a certain amount of sex came along with that in some cases.) But the biggest proof about it was that the Greeks (or rather the Macedonians, who were Greek in origin, being originally a Greek Colony) had an large unit in it comprising of male lovers who fought in pairs each lover protecting the other. Alexander had a unit like this when he defeated the Persians. (I believe they were called the Companions or something similar. I’ll have to look it up)
What kind of proof do you want?
More than how they lived (single sex barracks + hyper masculine culture) and that they wrote down what they did.
the barracks yes
masculinity =/= homosexual
and no they didn’t
I think you have a distorted understanding of human sexuality.
Noone is saying the Spartans were what we’d identify as gay today i.e. being only or primarily attracted to the same sex.
But Spartan males did have sex with other (younger) Spartan males. i.e. pederasty. It was an intrinsic part of their warrior culture.
You’re right, normaly masculine culture doesn’t imply any kind of sexuality one way or another.
However, hyper masculine and sex segregating cultures are pederastic (and even pedophile) cultures. We see this in the Islamic world today.
Your history professor is an idiot. There’s plenty of proof. Written records, artwork, ect. He must not have known much about ancient Greek culture.
Proofs only exist in mathematics. Sure, you can provide evidence to support your conjecture, but you cannot provide absolute proof. How do you know the people “writing the records” weren’t lying? You don’t, and you’ll never be able to be 100% sure, unless you’re The Doctor. Sure, they probably weren’t lying, but you cannot assert that they are proofs without identifying yourself as an ignorant dogmatist.
Hmm.. Ancient writers lying would only work if they were trying to prove themselves as a great nation (as was done throughout history by the Egyptians, the Greeks, the Romans and nearly every nation before and since). However I don’t think people such as Plato, Soakrates, Aristotle, and Diogenes (and his Barrel) would really say “Hey we’re the Greek, we’re tough, we’re mighty and we’re a nation of Shirt lifters. Come invade us and we’ll f**k you over (both ways ducky!!)”
See it only works if you’re happen to want to shout about your achievements.
That is the most unscientific argument ever.
I study history at one of the world’s best universities, and the first thing our professor tought us was that although there are unvalid sources we have ways to eliminate untruthful texts and writers.
Though a certain philosophers school (the skeptics) teaches that you can’t be sure about anything. If you see an apple you can by all meanings try to convince everybody that it’s an orange, but that just doesn’t make any sense.
Seems to me that you have some sort of homophobia for not accepting the facts.
“I study history at one of the world’s best universities, and the first thing our professor tought us was that although there are unvalid sources we have ways to eliminate untruthful texts and writers.”
Shame you weren’t “taught” to spell at your university. Your spelling makes your argument “invalid”.
Sounds like the bible.
i think ur seeing it wrongly. its a HUGE EPIC FAIL!!!!!!!! if u ever read a book about history, u would see that greeks had sex with women, also group sex. and its a cultural lie. Hate it.
Uh, it’s just a joke… And you are ruining it with all these “explanations”.
Get over yourselves and just laugh!
a book about history? How about you read a book FROM history.
Yes, they had sex with women. And in groups. AND very much so, with other men. The point of this site isn’t to say things that are 100% accurate all the time, that’s what makes it satire.
It is widely known that it was part of Greek culture for men to have sex with other men (and in many cases, younger men, like apprentices). This is just the stuff they really don’t want to teach you until college.
The way to imagine ancient Greek sexual morality is to picture the Taliban with a preference for oiling their bodies and athleticism.
ITS AWESOME!!!
omg 7th
One slight teeensy lil issue though…..Xerxes was Persian not greek, but I’m just being anal (no pun intended)
I see what you did there.
The Persians weren’t a homoerotic culture.
ME GUSTA THESAURI.
You’re not writing a doctoral dissertation. This is the Internet.
This. Is. Sparta!
THIS. IS. MARTHA!
Hi.
ah fock.
So this assumes that none of the Greeks or the Romans were women. Good job, sexist LOL. Also, there’s plenty of Greek pottery showing men and women having sex, so history fail too.
No, what you call “women” were “malformed” boys back then
lol
shouldn’t it refer to Persians, not Greeks?
This sucks badly. Italians can only copy and make worse, I mean, Greeks had sex with many women at the same time but the Italians that made this lol celeb are gay and want to ruin it for the Greeks because they know they used to have sex with 3 year olds.
Angry greek is angry.
Viva Italia
I wouldn’t be so sure about that italian part.
seriously.
Erm….Everybody had sex with everyone and everything.
So,the Romans had sex with the same sex or the other sex.
Greeks acted in the very same way.
Persians also.
So….. SEX! IT’S FREE!
Correcting… everybody HAS sex with everyone and everything.
SEX!!!
If you ask them, everything is greek invention.
Wow sex is an invention?
Seriously wtf, I’d very much like to hit the idiot who made this in a head with a hammer.
If you can’t have an open sense of humor, your on the wrong internet.
The Joke is actually
“Do you know the greeks invented sex?
It’s a good thing the italians introduced it to women.”
High Five for stealing jokes from stand up comedy.
So the ancient Greeks often engaged in homosexual and bisexual sex, no biggie. Some of the most celebrated warriors of legend had male lovers. Achilles for instance was so distraught at the death of his male lover (who was mistaken for him after borrowing his armour to join the battle) that he killed the man who had wronged him and spent several days dragging the corpse around in his chariot. Similarly some of the finest love poetry ever written was created by Areto about her female lover.
Everybody’s different. Let people find beauty where they may.
And don’t forget!! Lesbianism was apparently created on the isle of Lesbos (hey isn’t that appropriate!!) Apparently all their blokes went off to war leaving an island of sex starved women, so they basically did what they could, probably using the greek version of the Strap On
I’m still trying to see how Italians fit in to a picture of a Greek and a Persian. FAIL.
You know, I just love the look on the faces of these guys. That does go well with the caption.
No one ever thinks that real Greeks come to English sites these days. Dear God, what has the world come to. If real Greeks saw this they would have a fit. Trust me, I know.
I’m Greek. And I’m not amused.
And thanks for the understanding by the way…
romans, not italians! other than that historical ignorance the joke is great… and somewhat correct..(both had interesting sexual habbits…)
You should all people know that in every time of world’s history, gay and homosexual stuff existed… sometimes were well hidden,some other times things were more free… the only reason that everyone seems to “know” that ancient greeks were a bunch of gays is because there is no reliable historical source for the way they were having fun to their “symposia”(=when eating together)… the isolation of the women reinforced the belief that greek were homos…but they DIDNT… of course it was slightly usual phenomeno…but I cannot accept the statements from every random-ignorant- guy who watched a commercial movie (Alexander,Troy,300)-which are far away from the historical truth- and calling greeks as fuggots…
I apologize for my horrible English and I hope that I made my point clear
Sorry!! Alexander far from the Historical truth??? I’ve never watched the film but it is Historical fact that Alexander was gay (and was accompanied on his conquests by his “friend”.) Alexander also had a unit filled with gays (in pairs – each one the lover of the other. The Celts I believe had a similar system as well)
Of course its a joke. However it reflects those awfully wrong stereotypes that exist nowdays.