When I was 20 I read Plato. I was shocked, I have to say, that homosexuality was the norm for those fellows.

I read some book about the Jesuits going East. It seems sex with boys was the norm for most of the Eastern countries. Only in one place was sex with women the norm. The Jesuits attributed it to the fact that women in this country dressed in a somewhat provocative manner. In the other countries, of course, women were not allowed out of the house.

And in my early 20s I read and re-read Proust's novel. The theme of homosexuality is first just briefly hinted at and introduced, and the theme becomes ever stronger as one proceeds through the 3,000 pages--until, amazingly!, it seems just about all of the French upper-class at the beginning of the 20th centuries prove to be gay.

I don't know about Nietzsche. There was nothing gay-seeming about him to me. But, my goodness, who cares!

John