Lassalle: chivalry and womanizing?

[Die Neue Zeit]

If today's German media existed back then, these mainstream apologists would have tried to scandalize Ferdinand Lassalle's personal affairs like they did with Oskar Lafontaine and Sahra Wagenknecht.

That said, what was behind his past-dated chivalry, and what motivated his affairs with at least three upper-class women?

[goalkeeper]

what motivated his affairs with at least three upper-class women?

erm, what?

He found them attractive and felt like engaging in sexual relations with them? What kind of question is that lol.