Juke, it’s the problem with looking backwards on people’s ways with modern metrics. They didn’t perceive sexual orientation the same way back then. Socrates probably had his boys (and I mean boys) before he married a woman and both were expected conduct at the time. Of course, more than one philosopher was convinced marrying a woman was a step down, but that was at least as much due to the rampant belief women were imperfect men.
Juke, it’s the problem with looking backwards on people’s ways with modern metrics. They didn’t perceive sexual orientation the same way back then. Socrates probably had his boys (and I mean boys) before he married a woman and both were expected conduct at the time. Of course, more than one philosopher was convinced marrying a woman was a step down, but that was at least as much due to the rampant belief women were imperfect men.