: Re: How can I indicate that a particular relationship between two male characters is purely brotherly (Philia) rather than romantic (Eros)? One of the four forms of love Greek philosophy recognised,

Explain why are your characters more devoted to each other then to their wives

Marriage supposed to be closest bond between two human beings. Of course, that is the theory, in practice things often end up differently. Your characters could have various problems in marriage, for example they could have married based on good looks and those looks are gone, they could have devoted to much time to kids and kids have grown up etc ... Since they are very close friends they could discus these problems with each other, and thus establish they are still attracted to female sex.

One usual and somewhat lazy plot device to establish two characters as heterosexual red-blooded males is to set them up to make comments about other women ("Catherine is a hot piece of tail ..."). This of course could be altered to sound more sophisticated ("Catherine is indeed one exquisite woman ..."), depending on circumstances of your story.

Key would be not to overdo it, and not to make your story some politically correct garbage were you would write some long-winded explanation why your characters are not homosexual, but still support their rights as you do as an author. Instead, simply throw few casual sentences that establish them as heterosexuals and move on.

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