An idea from The Symposium

His speech rests on an Athenian custom the whole party takes for granted: a grown man courting a young man just growing his first beard, and teaching him in return. Pausanias argues the boy may give in only to a lover who will make him wiser and better.

From The Symposium by Plato

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