No, just best bros, who also explored each other's bodies sometimes.
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And gilgamesh was just really sad to lose his friend. Who wouldn't go to the underworld and defy the gods for a friend?
Gilgamesh and Enkidu at Uruk. Gilgamesh, his legs wide.
Enkidu, his sails unfurled.
While I'd totally want them to bang, they feel more like the frat bros that watch porn and wank together. Not in the "no homo" way but in the "bro, you got a nice cock!" way.
Bro
You can't really go applying modern expectations to the boundaries we associate with friend vs lover to a story that was written well over 40 years ago.
It was written a very long time before that, at least 40 years ago.
Experimenting I'd say. As it is usual for young men sharing a college dorm #nohomo
(Yes, they totally were lovers. Or at least bros with benefits.)
From what I’ve read male on male sex was looked at differently than it is now. But by today’s standards absolutely. The first epic was gay furry porn.
From what I’ve read male on male sex was looked at differently than it is now. But by today’s standards absolutely
Gay is gay.
Sexuality is a spectrum.
sure. and a male having sex with another male? gay.
Nah when I do it it’s just straight with Sumerian characteristics.
Who would date a guy who sells shitty copper?
Someone who makes shitty bronze?
3some with the tin merchant?
It's been like... 20, 25 years since I read it so I defer lol
It was kind of like Octavian & Agrippa, and Alexander & Hephaestion
Noddy and Bigears
Oh I thought Hephaestion was his horse....
And what a stud it was..