Original sentence: His lasting and loving relationship with young men and lack of close relationships with women, together with surviving legal records and contemporary writings have led some  modern historians to conclude that he had a strong erotic interest, one focused exclusively on males
Edited sentence: His lasting and loving relationship with young men and lack of close relationships with women, together with surviving legal records and contemporary writings have led some  modern historians to conclude that he had a strong erotic interest, one focused exclusively on males, although this is without any solid evidence and is seriously contested by  scholars