Michelangelo didn't "fuck the shit out of" his proteges...I mean we can never know, but from what I've read the history points to him being a straight man, and not homosexual which is the popular idea these days. For every poem he wrote to a man that can be excused as merely friendship, the poems and letters he has written to women I don't think can be. Its funny when you read about Michelangelo these days they say his relationships with certain men were obviously homosexual in nature, while the ones with women are said to be "intellectual" or "spiritual" in nature, what marks the distinction? I think people just like controversy.