catamitism /ˈkætəmaɪtɪzm/ noun2 •The practice of keeping catamites.Exhibitionists do not like to confess their venial sins — catamitism and group sex, yes, petty avarice and pettier maliciousness, no: the latter faults do not make for salable reading. — 1973 •(rare) The essence of being a catamite.Effeminacy…may not have been the quality that gave catamitism its meaning; rather, catamitism…may have been the normative danger that qualified effeminacy as a threat to male heterosexual rule. — 1994
