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Plutarch thought it was probably one of the reasons why they wore it.
>Why do they adorn their children's necks with amulets which they call bullae? [...]
>[...] Or is it because it was not unseemly or shameful for the men of old to love male slaves who were in their season of youthful beauty, as the comedies show even today, but they emphatically kept away from free boys, and free boys bore this sign so men would not be uncertain if they encountered boys naked?
- Plutarch, Moralia 288a

Gay child sex was so common in this culture, every freeborn boy had to wear a protective cock amulent around their neck to defend themselves from cock.

So much for trvd Rome.

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