{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "On the sex with North African boys thing, re: Foucault. I don\u2019t think it was even really that specific to the French. JM Keynes...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/647317925803474944/", "html": "<div class=\"question\"><strong>Anonymous</strong> asked: <p>On the sex with North African boys thing, re: Foucault. I don\u2019t think it was even really that specific to the French. JM Keynes lived himself a bit of \u201cbed and boy\u201d in Egypt too. I\u2019m not plugged in to gay culture but I bet ephebe sex tourism is still a thing in North Africa. I know it\u2019s a thing for aging lesbians in SE Asia.</p></div>\n<p><a href=\"/post/647307224969084928/\" target=\"_blank\">Yeah</a>, the inland native cultures of the Muslim Mediterranean (the Mediterranean, really) had a lot of boysex traditions, with an &ldquo;anything for the right price&rdquo; attitude in the port cities, and for a long time any European making it there has likely been wealthy by local standards.</p><p>Having so much exposure to that through their Empire is part of why France is Like That</p>"}