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by night862 1747 days ago
Heh, maybe not-as far as I am aware he didn't have a wife or any children that we know about.

but it seems like he thought about it a lot :)

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Plato wrote a lot about love relationships between men. Is a typical grooming tale that he was teaching to his alumni. Is easy to follow the dots here.
Actually in the Symposium it is Aristophanes who tells this story, as a deliberately funny and absurd way of explaining how crazy love is. It features both heterosexual and homosexual couples (these are just halves of four-legged creatures that were male/female or male/male or female/female respectively). The real argument of the Symposium is that Alcibiades' love for Socrates leads him towards the true good, which is philosophy.