article_snippet.sent: The Greek island may be inextricably linked to the idea of female homosexuality –
article_snippet.sent: Professor Edith Hall from King's College London added that, in the entire Greek world, the word 'lesbian' actually meant a woman performing an intimate sex act on a man.
article_snippet.sent: As a result, both 'Sapphic' and the name of The Greek island have now become synonymous with lesbianism – although such usage only started in the 19th Century.
article_snippet.sent: In 2008, residents of The Greek island lost a legal fight to ban the use of the word 'lesbian' to describe gay women, arguing that the term violated gay women human rights and 'disgraced' gay women around the world.
article_snippet.sent: Professor James Davidson said the willingness of the Ancient Greeks to embrace both male and female homosexuality may have been as much social as sexual.
article_snippet.sent: Instead of Greek homosexuality, I think Instead of Greek homosexuality should be called Greek homo-besottedness. '
article_snippet.sent: Instead of Greek homosexuality is always over the top.
article_snippet.sent: The whole phenomenon of Greek homosexuality for men and for women seems to be a kind of cultural and social institution. '
article_snippet.sent: men and for women are using Instead of Greek homosexuality as a way of social cohesion to break out of family groups and to establish communities. '