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Interesting you should say that. It's very possible he was bonezin yung dum boislutz, but unless we are to believe that some more-than-human mother gave birth to a boy and named that infant 'lord of life', then we are to say that Socrates' saga (e.g. forgetting every name, even his own, him being a wet nurse professionally, along with all the other statements said about him that are as allegorical-seeming as the accounts of Mark's gospel) was an allegory. The male-interest expressed in the dialogues has to do, again, with the subject/object relationship, but more specifically, the lover and beloved. He said there is not the same lustful attraction of otherness in male-male relationship, the key here being that there is no longer attraction to 'other' but 'same'. The male beloved is the image of the soul of the self that is transformed throughout the republic and the beloved becomes oneself (in a contemplative sense) when one truly knows oneself. (All of this is my dumb opinion. Feel free to shit on anything)