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Evolution of Ideas and Practices From Ancient generation     Platos symposium is a array of speeches on what love meant in the society. Although the bound homosexuality was non present in ancient propagation, it was something that was well practiced. workforce and women still shared intercourse, but it was not vista of as wrong, or out of the norm, for there to be male and male interaction, and sometimes distaff and female interaction. Love, the genial shared between deuce males, came from physical attraction, randy attraction and mental attraction. Love, the kind shared between a serviceman and a woman came from emotional and mental attraction, and a need to procreate. by and by the times of Plato female homosexuality was completely forbidden, although male homosexuality was deemed acceptable. nuptials was often just for procreation, but there was also love involved. homoeroticism in modern times is often thought of as wrong. It is thought of as comp letely inappropriate for two men or for two women to be together in a sexual way. It is interesting to mark how the idea and practice of homosexuality and the practice of love and marriage has evolved through with(predicate) the times.     There was much male and male interaction in the times of Plato. Older men often took younger men under their wings. An sometime(a) man would teach younger men about the world of love, politics, handicraft etc. in return for sexual favors. In the beginning of Symposium Agathon requests that Socrates be seated next to him so that I may touch you, he said and have the benefit of that wise thought which came into your mind in the portico... Agathon believed that he were to touch Socrates and be with Socrates he could learn Socrates many wisdoms. It would not have been uncommon for the other men in the room to confess a sexual interaction between males, for they themselves surely participated in it. Although it is subsequently learned that Socrates is not a enthusiast of sexual pleasures, he looks fall apart upon stimulation of the brain.     Who is really to say which kind of love is the true kind of love? Aristophenes tells a story of a different people, and Androgynous people. In the beginning a human was unrivaled being with quaternary arms, four hands, four legs, and four feet. This being even had two faces, on any side of the one head it shared. The being was egotistical and upset Zeus, and so Zeus cut it in half and made two of one in an attempt to humble this being.