In most cases, the early modern conception of the masculine sexuality is very different from that of today: a man's sexual relationship with women would not boost his masculinity, instead, it would diminish his masculinity and made him effeminate...Sexuality was more a feminine thing for early modern English people and it could contaminate a male through a heterosexual relationship. In other words, the idea of sexuality itself is misogynistic...
Of course, there are exceptions...