How Does Shakespeare Respond To Censure?

Shakespeare's sonnet is both his love poem to a man with feminine beauty and his lament over his lost “master-mistress” to the fact that Nature "prick'd thee out for women's pleasure", a line that implies sexual acts between a woman and a man (Shakespeare line 13). Plato would disagree with the use of this sentence in the poem due to his beliefs of censure. In the Republic, it is mentioned people should not be exposed to certain themes in literature lest they start to manifest in society. In particular, Plato describes sex as a negative aspect in literature that young men need to establish "one's authority over" (Plato 59). Due to inclusion of this lewd reference, Plato would claim it needs to be censured from an "ideal society" in order to