Anonymous
asked: On the sex with North African boys thing, re: Foucault. I don’t think it was even really that specific to the French. JM Keynes lived himself a bit of “bed and boy” in Egypt too. I’m not plugged in to gay culture but I bet ephebe sex tourism is still a thing in North Africa. I know it’s a thing for aging lesbians in SE Asia.
Yeah, the inland native cultures of the Muslim Mediterranean (the Mediterranean, really) had a lot of boysex traditions, with an “anything for the right price” attitude in the port cities, and for a long time any European making it there has likely been wealthy by local standards.
Having so much exposure to that through their Empire is part of why France is Like That