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Pausanias
Pausanias, the legal expert of the group, introduces a distinction between a nobler and a baser kind of love, which prepares Socrates discourse. The baser is in search of sexual gratification, and its objects are women and boys. It is inspired by Aphrodite Pandemos (Aphrodite common to the whole city). The nobler is directed toward young men, establishing life long associations, productive of the benefits described by Phaedrus. This love is related to Aphrodite Urania (Heavenly Aphrodite), and is based on honoring one's partner’s intelligence and wisdom.

He then analyses the attitudes of different estates relative to homosexuality. The first distinction he makes is between the estates that clearly establish in "black and white" what is admitted and what is not, and those that are not so explicitly clear, like Athens. In the first group there are estates favorable to homosexuality, like Elis, Boeotia and Sparta, or unfavorable to it like Ionia and Persia. The case of Athens is analyzed with many examples of what could be acceptable and what not, and at the end he makes the assertion that Athens code of behavior favors the nobler type of love and discourages the baser.



Lead section
The lead section contains two sentences that are based on arguments used in a dispute over land use, confronting range land and forest benefits in a particular territory. I think that a lead section is not the place to have this kind of information. On the other hand I am aware of the fact that the controversy on land use is relevant enough to be included. I therefore propose to substitutethe sentences for the following :

"As land is a scarce comodity, discussion and conflict over its use is common,

With the interweaving of forests, pathogens and the development of human civilization, deforestation and other land use changes have an important part in the emergence of disease.

An increasing number of studies on EIDs point to changes in land cover and land use, including forest cover change (particularly deforestation and forest fragmentation) along with urbanization and agricultural intensification, as major factors contributing to the surge in infectious diseases. Indeed the current increase coincides with accelerating rates of tropical deforestation in the past several decades. Today, both deforestation and emerging infectious diseases remain largely associated with tropical regions but have impacts that extend globally. Both are similarly intertwined with issues of economic development, land use and governance, requiring cross-sectoral solutions.

This article provides an overview of the role of forests and deforestation in EIDs. It highlights the most prominent forest-associated diseases and briefly describes the current state of understanding of the mechanisms by which forest conversion and alteration contribute to EIDs. Finally, it identifies forest resource management measures required to mitigate the EID problem.