I'd like to know a town where the father of a handsome lad would come up to me and reproach me as follows: "You're a fine one, you meet my son coming out of the gymnasium, all bathed; you don't kiss him, you don't say a word to him, you don't embrace or tickle him, and you call yourself a friend of the family.

Thus, well over two thousand years ago, Aristophanes was searching for such a town, and I can only add, as of today, so am I.

"Love seeks beauty as its object,” thought the Greeks, and so expressed it in their art, and how different from the Hindus, where one might paraphrase such an aphorism and state: "Beauty seeks love as its object."

In the search for male beauty, two themes reappear with great frequency throughout this art: first, the glorification of the athlete, the manly ideal of masculinity, Plato's army of lovers; and at the same time, youth that was delicate, sensitively effeminate, with only the slightest down on the face in place of the shaven or even the unshaven beard. They are two themes that fuse into one, that seem to conflict yet do not, and that were destined to reappear in the homosexual subculture of the midyears of the twentieth century in the United States.

*The three books discussed above are:

Mulk Raj Anand: Kama Kala: Some Notes on the Philosophical Basis of Hindu Erotic Sculpture; 133% x 10g in.; 69 plates, including 3 in color; Nagel Publishers, Geneva, distributed in U.S.A. by Lyle Stuart, Inc., New York, $28.00.

Jean Marcadé: Roma Amor: Essay on Erotic Elements in Etruscan and Roman Art; 133% x 10 in.; 118 plates, including 46 in color; Nagel Publishers, Geneva, distributed in U.S.A. by Lyle Stuart, Inc., New York, $28.00.

Jean Marcadé: Essay on Erotic Elements in Greek Art; 13% x 10% in.; 173 plates, including 98 in color; Nagel Publishers, Geneva, distributed in U.S.A. by Lyle Stuart, Inc., New York, $35.00.

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