As for marital relations, men seldom married before the age of 30, and apart from the wedding night, it was common for married couples to sleep apart. Men also used female prostitutes regularly: sex could be brought cheaply in a city that was home to countless brothels, streetwalkers and female “entertainers”. Relationships between men of the same age were not at all common: rather, the standard same-sex relationship would involve an adolescent boy and an older man. But the private lives of men in classical Athens – the city we know most about – were very different from anything that a “bisexual” man might experience today.
It was certainly the norm in ancient Greece for a man to find both sexes attractive.
