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• n  a boy who submits to a sexual relationship with a man

• Story openings --ledes in reporter jargon--have to grab, whether they be for a five hundred word news piece or a thousand page novel ("I was in bed with my catamite when Ali the .
• To him, Superman was a fascist icon; Batman and Robin were pedophile and catamite.
• It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me.