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except that's not true, will.
Roman stoic ethics had huge body issues, that too much desire or too much anyhing could make a man porous. They didn't believe in two biologically determinate genders...and so this weakening could literally effeminize a man in to a woman. The development of the mind, body, and control of each was the "hardening" process by which a man stayed manly. Anything else meant softening in to a woman.
St. Paul picks up on a lot of these same concerns...especially in the Corinthian correspondance...and helps kick off Christendom's ambivalent relationship with sex...but he did NOT invent these ideas.
Greeks thought sexual initiation was a proper part of education, Romans had slaves "pedagouges" teach their sons and protect them from rape and seduction.
Simple, my ass.
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