[Mrs. Don-o]

According to a bio I read years ago, Hans Christian Andersen was very sensitive and shy even when he was at the height of his professional success, and ---one might think --- his confidence. He got emotional attachments to people, both women and women, all of whom turned out to be unattainable.<

As far as anybody knows, he was a virgin until his death. He would never have considered himself to be "homosexual" or "bisexual" or anything of the sort. He was very much a Christian in faith and morals, and even moreso, in his conception of the human condition..

Not everything that is emotional, even passionately emotional, is sexual. Deep attachments between men --- heterosexual men --- used to be the stuff of war stories and explorer/adventurer stories. It's the stuff of the epics and of the classics.

Let's not demean and kill profound male friendship under the suffocation assumption that it's all about sex.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Ever notice that in our homo fascinated MSM that all men in the past who did not get married are suddenly classed as homos, even if they are not gay.

[virgil]

I’ve noticed how it seems that all relationships have been reduced to something sexual. It’s not true. Humans are social beings.