Keuls E C
Clio Med. 1995;27:261-73.
After at least a century of institutionalized pederasty Athenian society developed legal and moral sanctions against this practice at the end of the fifth century BC as the indirect result of the introduction of medicine. Viewing the sex drive as a bodily need, analogous to hunger and thirst, it cast a disparaging light on the role played by the passive partner. It is here argued that the principal catalyst of the transformation of biology into prescriptive ethics was Democritus of Abdera, whose preoccupation with medicine is known. Democritus probably influenced Aristotle, who articulated the harshest condemnation of pederasty found in Greek texts.
在至少一个世纪的制度化娈童现象之后，雅典社会在公元前五世纪末对这种行为制定了法律和道德制裁措施，这是引入医学的间接结果。医学将性欲视为一种身体需求，类似于饥饿和口渴，这使得被动一方所扮演的角色蒙上了轻蔑的色彩。本文认为，将生物学转变为规范性伦理的主要催化剂是阿布德拉的德谟克利特，他对医学的关注是众所周知的。德谟克利特可能影响了亚里士多德，亚里士多德对娈童现象的谴责是希腊文献中最为严厉的。
