Greece
Greece
Greek Teenagers Starting Sex Life at 16
According to a survey by the Adolescent Health Unit of Agia Sofia Children Hospital, Greek teenagers start their sex life in the age of 16.
Out of 529 adolescents in Attica, 20% started their sex life before the age of 16. More specifically...
Education
Greek Students' Sex Life Thriving
According to a scientific research that was carried out at the University of Crete among the students of the Nursing Department, there has been an increase in Greek students' sexual life.
Some 76.5 percent of the respondents have already had...
Greece
Crisis Affects Greeks' Sexual Life
The Hellenic Society for the Study of Human Sexuality (EMAS) and the Andrology Institute of Athens conducted a research, according to which the financial crisis has affected Greeks’ personal and sexual life and has increased incidences of violence against...
Ancient Greece
Joy of Sexus: Ancient Greece's Erotic Life
The ancient Greeks' sexual life as depicted in literary, historical and artistic evidence, has become a major subject of interest over the past decades among scholars and laities.
The erotic life of the ancient Greeks was open to various sexual...
Business
Aristotle Onassis: Greece’s Larger Than Life Tycoon
Aristotle Onassis was one of the most famous Greeks in the entire world in the 20th century, a visionary and one of the richest men
Ancient Greece
Sex Work in Ancient Greece: Hetairai and Flute Girls
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Sex work in ancient Greece was performed by the hetairai, and those who worked their whole lives (until they were of no further use) in brothels. Other sex workers were sold into the role as children.
By Marguerite Johnson
When the...
Crime
Killer of American Biologist Receives Sentence of Life in Prison
The convicted killer of Dr. Suzanne Eaton, the 60-year-old American biologist who was raped and murdered and left in an abandoned Nazi bunker in Crete received a life sentence plus thirteen years for the crime.
After being convicted of the...
Art
Alexandros Iolas: An Extraordinary Life of Fine Art — and Greek Tragedy
When Alexandros Iolas died in June 1987, Greece lost not only one of the world's greatest art collectors who was willing to donate his priceless possessions to the Greek state, but also a man who contributed greatly to the...
Cyprus
Cypriot Bishop Provokes Anger with Views on Homosexuality and Abortion
A bishop from Cyprus caused controversy this week with his statements on homosexuality and abortion, forcing the government and the head of the church of Cyprus, Archbishop Chrysostomos, to condemn his views.
Morphou Bishop Neophytos stirred widespread anger when he...
Greece
Greek Priest Accused of Asking Godparent To Declare Sexuality
A priest from the suburb of Maroussi in northern Athens allegedly asked a woman to sign an official declaration recently stating that she had never said that she was homosexual.
The peculiar incident has gone viral in Greece over the...
Greece
Flashback to the Turbulent Life of Greek Tycoon Aristotle Onassis
Born in Smyrna on January 15, 1906, Aristotle Onassis was to become Greece's pioneer in shipping, his name still reverberating today as the Greek fleet dominates international waters.
His father, Socrates Onassis was one of the wealthiest tobacco merchants and...
Greece
First Same-Sex Marriage in Greece Ruled Invalid
Nine years after the first same-sex marriage was conducted on Tilos by the mayor of the tiny Aegean island, the Greek Supreme Court ruled it as invalid, on Thursday.
The court said the ruling expresses the Greek rule of law,...
Greece
Hot, Hunky, Hugely Sexy Mr. Universe Is Greek… and a God! [pics]
The best body in the world belongs to Greek basketball player Zois Ballas, who has been pronounced the victor of the prestigious IBF-Mr. Universe fitness competition held in Naples, Italy. Voting took place in July, and Greece's own 28-year-old...
Crime
Sexual Assaults on Children at Refugee Camps in Greece, says British Report
Refugee children as young as seven years old have been sexually assaulted in official European refugee camps in Greece, an Observer report says.
Human rights groups and charities cite testimonies from certain camps according to which youngsters are too terrified...
Greece
Female Refugees Face Sexual Exploitation in Greece
Female refugees face sexual exploitation while children are vulnerable to kidnapping, on the perilous journey from Turkey to Greece and then to northern Europe, says an Al Jazeera report.
The report follows the story of Samira, a 32-year-old Moroccan woman...