As usual but I may cut it out, I have my own theory, and some of it comes from my undergrad philosophy class, re: Marcus Aurelius. That is that an untested virtue, is not really virtuous. Admittedly post Kinsey, all have had their curious stage, and for some curiosity kills the cat or something like that.
Again comes irony, on the deepest levels, even from them, that the so called Platonic Love, there was more meant than the naked eye could perceive. Socrates paid a heavy price for leading young men down the wrong road, and perhaps(for I am not sure) Plato was badly, literally misquoted on that. That Socrates was a total but unintentional hypocrite, as described in the Banquet, a leacherous man full of voles and pretensions, can be held against him. However the hyperbolae disengaged from his conscious awareness, as the gods directed him for caring that the boys do not go through it, for who can live with vanity, jealousy, and mayhem.
There was a man in fact more men who claimed to kill themselves after they reached 30, or after loosing their looks. Which comes first.
The point is, that the irresistible platonic image behioves the imagination that imminent reflection can cast, the transcending of images into an eternal model diminishes the idea of genetic absolutism, where lower level specie of sentiment, human beings are discouraged to participate.
The magic was rekindled out of the natural need to create forms of beauty that Levi Strauss coined ‘a mystery. That idea can be supported by other forms of cultural aesthetic, such as those of the orient, and other cultural ideals.
It is not insignificant that Eurocentric ideals were transvalued by German philosophers. In the ‘photographic period’ it was German photographers catering to aristocracy who excelled in male photos of pubescent boys of Greece and Arabia.
These are fleeting thoughts meant not to void the love of men, but to secularize the asexual non objectivism accounting for the non objective of mature men raising other men’s boys, for instance. There is a difference in kind here, subtle and as yet generally unrecognized. Such even carry over to the parallel between pre-Homeric narratives and the pre-objective, non idolized political brutalities of things to come. The effects of unrecognized subtlety effected inordinate brutality and the rise of sadism.
