We two boys together clinging,
One the other never leaving,
Up and down the roads going - North and South excursions making,
Power enjoying elbows stretching, fingers clutching,
Armed and fearless—eating, drinking, sleeping, loving,
No law less than ourselves owning—sailing, soldiering, thieving, threatening,
Misers, menials, priests alarming—air breathing, water drinking, on the turf or the sea-beach dancing,
With birds singing—With fishes swimming—With trees branching and leafing,
Cities wrenching, ease scorning, statues mocking, feebleness chasing,
Fulfilling our foray.

- Walt Whitman
We Two Boys Together Clinging (1850's)


Ye cypress-breasted boys of birth,
attend the coming of the gloom!
Expose your breasts of jasmine, show
your lily buttocks all abloom!
Let Love awake, and blush, as Love
comes glimmering from the starry womb,
With standing member all aglow,
purpled with cloth from Rapture's loom.
O tulip cheeks! O lips of rose!
the joy of Allah ye assume,
Rejoicing in the luscious play,
the slippery splendour of the spume
Cast from the holy hiding-place
for ever till the day of doom.
Rejoice, O podex, in thy strength!
thy spasms like the stars illume
Earth's darkness, life's disgrace, abash
the trifling terrors of the tomb.

- Aleister Crowley
from Bagh-I-Muattar (The Scented Garden of Abdullah The Satarist of Shiraz) (1910)



Homosexual intercourse, like all intercourse, involves energy-exchange on several levels. It may, in certain cases, involve greater stimulation on certain levels than that provided by heterosexual or sodomitic intercourse.

- Aleister Crowley
from The Field-Theory of Sex