For he did not have to go anywhere for his sexual gratification but, as he humorously put it, he found Aphrodite everywhere, without expense; and the poets libelled the goddess, he maintained, on account of their own want of self-control, when they called her "the all-golden." And since many doubted this boast, he gave a public demonstration before the eyes of all, saying that if men were like himself, Troy would never have been taken, nor Priam, king of the Phrygians and a descendant of Zeus, been slain at the altar of Zeus.
He might not have seen Plato's cupness, but apparently everybody saw Diogenes' junk.
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One of my favorite Diogenes stories tells how, when bystanders yelled at Diogenes for "finding his own Aphrodite" in the middle of the agora, he remarked that it would be a far better world if people could alleviate hunger just by rubbing their stomachs.
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