He liked to boast of his conquests of teenage boys, in his poems, and bragged that once, after surprising a boy and girl in the act of making love, mounted the boy "to please Venus." Disappointed in love by the beautiful nymphomaniac Clodia, he turned to an equally beautiful boy, Juventius. However, Juventius was fickle and cruel, and the affair was stormy, to say the least. Catullus, who was barely thirty when he died, expressed disgust for most homosexuals, except those who were active lovers of boys.