from the first epic to the present: does love have a gender?

I will write about two main controversial issue which are homosexual relationship between Enkidu and Gilgamesh, and heterosexual male-male relationship in terms of Platonic love.

In the option of platonic love, it does have to consist sexual intercourse, but it could be erotic. However, in this situation, erotic does not suggest sexual relationship all the times, it suggests the companionship and the feeling of being met fully by others and the feeling of empathy. Perhaps, between these two, gilgamesh and enkidu, there is a relationship consisting these behaviors, called erotic-but-not-sexually-active platonic love.

In the second option,maybe there is a homosexual relationship between enkidu and gilgamesh. The idea of “Gilgamesh’s love of Enkidu as his wife” mentioned in the first tablet of the epic and mentioned later, increases the possibility of homosexual intercourse. and homosexual relationship, which has been in the nature of humanity since ancient times, is mentioned once again in the first written epic, which I see no strangeness in. however, in this case, considering that Gilgamesh and Enkidu are not fully human and have divine features, the concepts of homosexual and heterosexual relationships among people may not be the same for them. Here, too, several doors open. One of them is that maybe things work difdrently among the gods (and 2/3gods).

But, the issue I want to ask and discuss is the nature of the relationship between enkidu and gilgamesh and how the interpretation of this epic can change according to this feature.