Lykinos told a little story about the disputation between his friends Charikles, who loved only girls, and Kallikrates, who loved only boys. The three arrive in Knidos and visite the statue of Aphrodite by Praxiteles. Seeing the sculpture, Charikles begins to praise her, then they go behind the statue and watch her from the back. No Kallikrates is enthousiastic as he sees her beautiful bottom, and Charikles has tears in his eyes.

So they rest in silence for a moment. Than they remark a dark spot on the backside of one tigh of the statue. Lykinos conjectures it to be a fault in the marmor, but than a woman tells them what really happened:

A young man of a rich family once fell in love with the goddess, visited her all day, talked with her, and one night, he hid himself in the garden, and after all the other visitors left, he had an indescripable night with the goddess made of stone. After that night, he killed himself.

Now Charikles says: "The woman is even loved if she is made of stone. What if she would have been alive..." But Kallikratides smiles and says, that this supports his view: because this young man had the fredom to do anything with the statue, but he prefered to hug her like a boy and not to take her from the front. So they both again started to disput, and Lykinos had trouble to get them out of the garden and settle their disput somewhere else.