Original sentence: stut up man
Edited sentence: At around age 12, the boys would enter into an institutionalized relationship with a young adult male Spartan.At the stage of hebontes, roughly age 20, the students became full part of the syssitia and Spartan army, and were finally permitted to marry, although they continued to live in barracks, and continued to compete for a place among the Spartan hippeis, the royal guard of honor.At the stage of paidiskoi, around the age of 18, the students became reserve members of the Spartan army.Boys were intentionally underfed to master the skills necessary to become successful at stealing their food.Boys would be given one item of clothing per year, and they created beds out of reeds from the Eurotas River.Only the heirs apparent of Spartan royal households (the Agiads and Eurypontids) were exempt from the process.Plutarch described this form of Spartan pederasty, wherein somewhat older warriors would engage promising youths in a long-lasting relationship with a pedagogic motive.Some classical writers, including Xenophon in his "Polity of the Lacedaemonians", wrote that Spartans did not engage in sexual relations with adolescents, believing it akin to indulging in their own children.The boy was expected to request the relationship, and it was seen as a method to pass on knowledge and maintain loyalty on the battlefield.The boys lived in groups (agelai, "herds") under an older boy leader.They also (or probably just a small group of very promising ones) were taken to the Crypteia (Krypteia), a sort of festival testing their skills by declaring war on the helot slave population, encouraging the students to murder those who were out at night and take their food.They were encouraged to give their loyalty to their communal mess hall rather than their families.They would be severely punished, however, if they were caught.This began the first of the three stages of the agoge: the paides (roughly speaking, ages 7–17), the paidiskoi (ages 18–19), and the hebontes (20-29); some classical sources indicate that there were further subdivisions by year within these classes.When a boy reached his seventh birthday, he was enrolled in the agoge under the authority of the paidonómos (), or "boy-herder", a magistrate charged with supervising education