Sexualized Minds Child Sex Offenders' Offense-supportive Cognitions and Interpretations
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On the Cover: In Greek mythology, Ganymede is a young boy and described as the most beautiful of mortals. Zeus, king of the Gods, fell in love with Ganymede's thighs and came down in the form of an eagle to carry Ganymede to Mount Olympus to let him serve as cup-bearer to the gods. The myth of Ganymede has been seen as a symbol of male homoerotic love, or pederasty, the relationship between an adult male and an adolescent boy. In ancient Greece, pederasty was a socially acknowledged relationship to teach the adolescent boy how to become a man.
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