I kinda got the vibe that he wasn't totally straight, but I wasn't sure at the time if it was real or just my attraction to him that made me think so. We would joke around, play pool and xbox together. The thing that put my mind into high gear about him was while hanging out with him and some other buddies at his brother's house drinking some beers, I went to the bathroom to pee. He was coming out as I was going in.Īs I was holding a beer in my hand and he asked. "Sure, but I might pee all over the ceiling when it get's hard". Snickering I continued, "Oh, I thought I was gonna get some special treatment tonight." "Ah, I meant your beer." he respond, his cheeks flushing slightly. He looked me right in the eyes and said, "Well, if you don't wanna get pee all over the bathroom, we can go in the back yard, it's dark back there". I can remember this very well, because hearing him say that made me so excited. I decided to hold back a little in case he was just kidding around. In an attempt to call his bluff I laughed, "Yea, right Ryan, don't get my hopes up like that". He looked me right in the eyes again and said."Well, lets go out there and see". I had to see where this was going so I replied, "Okay, let's go." My pulse was really racing now and I was almost overwhelmed with anticipation over what might be starting. I remember very vividly when he opened up the sliding glass door. I was thinking, this had gone to a way new level. I was straight, but I wanted this guy sexually so much.
We went into the dark back yard, I unzipped and pulled my now semi-hard cock out, he looked around for a second and then took his left hand and held it while I peed in the grass.
I was thinking.damn another guy's hand is on my cock. He said, "Damn, dude, I guess you meant it." I got rock hard right in his hand from him just touching it. Our eyes had adjusted to the dark and with the ambient light from the street lamps I could see him well. "I just peed in the bathroom, but if you really wanna hold it, you can." he replied. More significantly, his relationship with Hephaestion (Jared Leto) is shown as being more than platonic, although the two men are not directly shown having sex.There I was, my cock still hanging out from my jeans, I reached over as he unzipped his cargo shorts and pulled out his semi hard cock. In one scene, when they are being tutored by Aristotle (Christopher Plummer) as boys, Aristotle starts to talk about Achilles and Patroclus. Hephaestion gives Alexander a pointed looked and asks if Achilles’ love for Patroclus was corrupting. Aristotle replies that when two men lie together in lust, it does nothing for their excellence, but when two men lie together in love, it is a pure thing. On Alexander’s wedding night, Hephaestion gives Alexander a ring and the two men embrace. Roxane walks in and gets upset, asking if her husband loves Hephaestion. Alexander replies that there are many ways to love someone, and then has rather violent sex with her. When Hephaestion dies, Alexander goes crazy and either intentionally tries to get himself poisoned or goes on a bender and falls fatally ill. As he is dying, he holds up Hephaestion’s ring. So while the film isn’t explicit, it seems pretty obvious to me that Stone wants viewers to connect the dots.įirst, we have to acknowledge that the ancient Greeks had no concept of ‘sexual orientation’ or the like. They had no idea that most people are only attracted to the opposite sex but that some are attracted to the same sex or to both. Instead, the ancient Greeks seem to have looked at the choice of sex partners as a matter of taste, mood, and intention. They understood that many men occasionally had sex with other men or with teenage boys, but this did not mean these men did not also have sex with women. A man could easily have a wife or concubine and a boyfriend. Such attractions were to some extent treated as an issue of taste, the way a modern man might say he prefers blondes over brunettes, or say that he’s a ‘legs man’ or a ‘boobs man’.