And the Bottom-Line, No-Bullshit Fact About the Significance of Sexual Dimorphism in Humans Is:
Sexual dimorphism (difference in size and suppleness) is probably what makes the sexual connection between full-grown men and half-grown boys so common, and delightful, a normative factor in human society throughout the history of our species. And it also explains why both the earliest forms of heterosexual marriage and homosexual paedophilia (such as that practiced in ancient Crete--and of course epitomized in the myth of Zeus and Ganymede) always contain a large element of more or less ritualized Abduction, which seems to serve the dual purpose of making the new relationship both official and juicy hot.
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