[Antoninus]

Claudius was apparently the only one of the first 15 or so Roman emperors who diddled only women, not boys. This was used to propagandize against him by his enemies, as evidence of his weakness of character.

Please cite your sources on this.

[Sherman Logan]

Gibbon good enough for you?

The homosexual interests of Roman emperors is familiar to many modern readers. In fact, Edward Gibbon wrote in his History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire that “of the first fifteen emperors, Claudius was the only one whose taste in love was entirely correct,” that is, in Gibbons’ view, heterosexual…

Decline and Fall: Vol. 1, ch. II, footnote 31.

http://books.google.com/books?id=1ha9GgWNmy0C&pg=PA202&lpg=PA202&dq=suetonius+claudius+homosexuality&source=bl&ots=MKJDjbwUDl&sig=UaUainn0lOy63HcjPdl2avjkpIs&hl=en&sa=X&ei=NjVaUMb2N4n49QSH-4GwDA&ved=0CEEQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=suetonius%20claudius%20homosexuality&f=false

Gibbon might, of course, have been misinformed, and it is certain that accusations of this type were part of the common stock of Roman denigration of political opponents. So you can believe what you like.