Bronzino's symbolism

What do you make of the rampant symbolism in Bronzino's Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time? Some of the symbols are clear. The golden apple is Venus's reward for winning the very first beauty contest (the judgement of mortal Paris). The arrow is the dart of love which Cupid shoots into people; Venus appears to have pricked him with his own missile. Father Time is identified by the hourglass on his back. Two abandoned masks declare that pretence has been discarded. The dove of peace suggests the hippie motto "Make love, not war". A cherub is about to throw rose petals over the couple, a lay blessing still in use as modern confetti. The mythological creature with a girl's face - similar to Bronzino's beautiful portrait of Bia - is bringing the couple a honeycomb, a symbol of sweetness and plenty that we still find in the word "honeymoon". The couple are enjoying what we Brits refer to as a "French kiss", which is as close as an artist can get to physical union without being accused of porn. Yet Cupid's young bottom is poised as a gift to political correctness. Folly No 1, the man screaming in frustration above the proffered bottom, suggests a closet queen or a celibate priest, perhaps both. As for the tug-of-war between Time and the female Folly, is he trying to screen the couple from her prurient gaze? or is he yanking the screen out of a prude's grasp? As for the allegory - the sum of all these symbols - I suspect that if Bronzino had stated his case too clearly he would have risked being in serious trouble with the Roman Catholic Church. Free love for all persuasions isn't how we're supposed to prepare for death! Naughty, naughty, Bronzino. But a work of "singular beauty" (Vasari, 1568).