The person for whom sapphic love is named was bisexual.
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Replying to @CelticAnarchy
Well we don't actually know anything about her as a historical person
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we have pieces of poems written by sappho—most of them destroyed because women artists were deemed unimportant, especially their sexuality—and many of them speak of her relationships with women, as well as with men.
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Replying to @gawdz0rz @CelticAnarchy
All I'm saying is that the reason this is so controversial is that a poem written by a person isn't the same as that person actually discussing their real life in nonfiction And the biographical details of her life (who her family was etc) are very hard to pin down
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A lot of stuff people cite to try to pin down her relationships is really fuzzy She may have had a daughter named Cleis or Cleis might have been a young lover Her "husband" Kerkylas of Andros is probably a dick joke made at her expense, etc
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