(1) Piers Gaveston members are understood to be given obscure titles such as “Poker”, “Despenser” and “Catamite”, and they all follow the Sicilian code of Omertà – or maintaining silence about the club.
Pederast
Definition:
(n.) One guilty of pederasty; a sodomite.
Example Sentences:
(1) After briefly summarizing the allegorical implications of the various forgotten Oedipus myths and the father's fateful role within the Theban tragedy, this paper elaborates on those pederastic and filicidal inclinations that I believe to be universal among fathers.
(2) Male homosexuality in Classical Greece found its expression in relationships that conformed to a pederastic model.
(3) In 1869, Friedrich Engels had already noticed, as he put it in a letter to Karl Marx, that “the pederasts are beginning to count themselves”, speculating half jokingly that they might one day amount to “a power in the state”.
(4) I am not a paedophile or pederast.” Proctor claimed Brittan had been driven to his death by police action.
(5) However, existing material shows pederastic practices in primitive societies as initiation rituals for male youth.
(6) The appalling story of power’s revenge, its searing impact on Cacho and the implications of the affair for all reporters is told in a further book, Memorias de una Infamia ( Memories of Infamy ), in which, vindicated by subsequent events and trials, Cacho demonstrates that the pederasts and sex criminals were protected by the governor of Puebla state, by the judiciary and by people even higher up – with connections also to drug trafficking.
(7) The Swimming-Pool Library, his sex-drenched first book, published in 1988, mapped the gay world before and after the 1967 Sexual Offences Act, which decriminalised homosexuality; The Folding Star (1994) was a disturbing study of pederastic desire; The Spell (1998) a sex-and-drugs-fuelled comedy of manners; The Line Of Beauty another dark comedy exposing the hypocrisy and cupidity of the 1980s.
(8) Even then, the pederasts whose counting had been overheard by Engels were making steady progress.
(9) In other parts of the world, pederastic practices were forms of prostitution.
(10) For several reasons it is difficult to find examples of pederastic practices in historical and ethnological sources.
(11) Cacho was to be charged with libel after the publication of a book, The Demons of Eden , which revealed a sex-trafficking and pederast-paedophile ring with connections to power on high.
(12) The usual role a priest plays in dramas of social deprivation is that of pantomime villain: heartless, out of touch and like as not pederastic.