Are you kidding me? You have the wrong resources about Spartans. I take no offense.
It's a matter of today's school of master degree programs v.s. the School of Oxford with the basis of 1800's research papers studied from a "Romance Period".Using leading materials from Sir Paul Anthony Cartledge of Oxford is very questionable today and falls incorrectly.Long ago there was a modernist Victorian movement in history which tries to take away 'cultural influences' on historians interpretations of history… Meaning if your living in the 1800’s and you have personal “influences” your work will be published… These are the classical traditions… All stemming from the production of this book: "Sparta -in The Classical Tradition".These 'leaders' today with the big books: Cartledge, Hubert Kennedy, Scanion, Dryer, and especially 70's Erich Bethe studied under the "Gay Romanticism Classics": thesis papers of what is known today as the "1800's Western European 'oppressed homosexual' community and romanticism". Papers and academic documents back then created out of these organized 'sabbaticals' to Hellas (German/Anglo: Greece) searching for reason and interpreting them as a great 'cultural uni-sense' and is unfortunately in today's correct historical information... is fiction when it comes to Sparta.How? -because these doctorates studied mainly "Athenian" records and artifacts (or as the Hellenists [Greeks] like to call them "graffiti"). Sparta or Λακεδαίμων or Lakonian's did not produce the art, wide text, or record. It was their greatest enemies... mainly the Athenians (Corinthian, Akarnanian's, etc.) who drew up and created Spartan portraits, interpretation, what they thought a Lakonian Society was like and how they functioned.... if not to mock them, is most likely.The Athenian teachers/philosophers were into this sort of thing of "pederasty" and shaving women's hair for marriage, was not so prevalent in Spartan means. Sure, there were cases of it going on at Athens, but it was actually frowned upon and even mocked by fellow soldiers as an "Athenian act" (these 2 city states hated each other and hated what they stood for). Alexander the Great who was taught by Aristotle also indulged in this way of life. Not Spartans or Lakonians.So, recent research and legit interpretations in ancient Greek studies are finding other truthful interpretations. Spartans were very, very tough military-organized-savage-peoples as an appropriate realistic narrative. New York's 'Broadway Community' of writers and NBC's SNL's skit interpretation was outdated and got it wrong.