Brilliant. Thank you for the comment. I believe that the "hedonistic lifestyle" in question might relate to what we might call a "free love" mentality. I feel like that type of thinking has been corralled into the stereotype of "hippie culture" in the United States, but truthfully I conjecture it was something more of a "live and let live" lifestyle that he was getting at. The lack of a willingness to condemn or denigrate others for reasons like flaunting societal norms could be considered "hedonistic" in that mindset, and could be grounds for the accusal of advocating "corruption of the youth," a commonly utilized psychological grounds for being hostile towards an ideology. Pederasty was also a common practice, and would be looked upon as "curious" to be willing to facilitate the willful removal of or protection of people in these positions to "somewhere else," out in the wilderness/desert/greek isles etc, where life can go on, albeit without society, and still be quite happy about it all. It seems like he was waaay ahead of his time in political correctness terms, and indeed even more so in terms of human rights and human kindness.
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I will have to go back and research him again because some time has passed since I studied him (even then, it was brief).