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Could Louis have been gay?

posted 11 years ago by chelmichellex0
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I read in a couple posts on here that Louis' bedroom problems were attributed to erectile disfunction and/or being too young to handle it.

I always got the impression from this movie that he was simply gay and not interested in having sex with her and forced himself to in order to have children.

I also interpreted the scene at the masked ball, where Louis has a short conversation with that man as that man hitting on him. Louis then hurried away because he felt uncomfortable.

Did anyone else think this?

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[–] CatLover4 11 years ago

I took his being uncomfortable at the fact that all of Paris probably knew she was still a virgin, since this man mentioned it. Although, it was a masked ball, I don't think he wanted to stick around long enough to be recognized, and took off. jmo.

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[–] thelegallywicked 11 years ago

The man at the ball asked this because in that time in France they had sex to seal the deal. It was such a big deal that the royal court was there watching them and usually would clap after.

[–] deem714 11 years ago

you can't judge a period movie by who played the character. the fact that Jason Schwartzman was kind of pathetic and wrong for this shouldn't tip you to the gay side of the radar.

I thought he had this weird sort of deformity which mad erections excruciatingly difficult.

the conversation at the masked ball, I want to believe, was because the guy didn't know he was talking to the future king. he asked "has the prince deflowered her, yet?" if he knew he was talking to Louis, he would have asked have YOU....

so what if he died without having children? the throne would have gone to the next oldest brother and his already jump-started family.

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[–] Owlnut73 8 years ago

Well, I am surehe got casted because he's a cousin of Sophia's.

[–] Noufa (383) 2 years ago

the conversation at the masked ball, I want to believe, was because the guy didn't know he was talking to the future king. he asked "has the prince deflowered her, yet?" if he knew he was talking to Louis, he would have asked have YOU....

Minor point but it's also possible that he was doting on him. Like a kindergarten teacher asking a student "How's our little scholar doing today?"

[–] Gojira1963 10 years ago

Louis XVI was not gay. He had a medical condition called phimosis that made sex painful. Surgery would eventually resolve the problem but Louis was afraid of the surgery. It took his brother-in-law, Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II, to convince him to have the surgery and once he did he and Marie Antoinette began having children.

[–] linda_lee110282 8 years ago

The phimosis problem was never proven. Joseph II couldn't even hear that the problem may have been a physical deformity of his sister that made intercourse painful for her. Historians could never agree what th problem was, but most certainly was physical, hers or his.

[–] Ameliex 8 years ago

I also thought perhaps Louis was gay, until i read online about his medical condition.

[–] holchie 7 years ago

I don't think he was gay, and I choose the theory that he had a minor operation and was then able to have proper intercourse. I don't believe circumcision was a standard practice among the French at that time, but that would have prevented the problem altogether if he had that done when he was a baby.

[–] Otter (24464) 7 years ago

Did he surround himself with hunky servants or courtiers? Did he have a close, intimate friendship with a chamberlain or secretary? Did he have male "favorites", and if so, were they attractive?

Seriously, this question has come up before, with other historical figures. A lack of successful heterosexuality doesn't necessarily mean a person was gay; for instance I think that Queen Elizabeth 1 of England was straight because she had intense ongoing relationships with several men, and no notable relationships with women. Some straight people just get it wrong, as Louis apparently did, it doesn't mean they're attracted to their own sex.