The male body was celebrated, mostly in the naked form which included young boys. The celebration of the perfect representation of the human form which was mostly the naked male youth set the foundation of the historical gay aesthetics. The slaves who were considered to be property were also included to the sexual property that an individual owns. There was nothing shameful in the acts, as long as the boys were not freeborn. The gay marriage was alive and celebrated in the Roman Empire, where the Romans had embraced the pederasty of the Greeks. The ancient celebration of the issue gives the current generation a hope that the current community will accept and consume the LGBTQ culture in accordance with Kerry Rourke’s theory. The statute is associated with the unparalleled beauty which is balanced with strength and elegance and showed a dynamic interplay between the attributes of masculinity and femininity (anistor 1) The statue exhibits the exact beauty that men needed in their partners.ĭuring the Roman times, homosexuality was celebrated as an art, and it was not viewed as a negative issue.
The openness of the emperor’s affair with the boy, depicts an accurate picture showing how homosexuality was treated as normal by even the leaders of that time. Some scholars argued that the boy fell in the Nile while others propose that, he was killed by the enemies of the emperor.
