[lbo-talk] Michelangelo , was Re: The sources of suffering (Grow up!) ( Was Re: Harry Potter, Metritocracy, and Reward)

[Miles Jackson]

Chris Doss wrote:
> --- andie nachgeborenen
> <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
>  Michelangelo could not have imagined
>> Robert Mapplethorpe, whatever their shared taste for
>> pretty boys. So the question is pointless.
>>
>>
> 
> Just out of curiousity, how do we know what
> Michelangelo's sexual orientation was? Do we have
> correspondence between him and a lover or somesuch?

Asking about M's sexual orientation is as silly as asking whether he 
was a Democrat or a Republican.  Our typology of sexual orientation 
did not exist in 16th century Europe, so it's a meaningless question.

Miles