If something like this happens with a medieval Arabic poet they usually justify it “It is just a different culture, even now in Arab countries male friends hug each other and walk holding hands” or “they could use male forms for female in poetry”(that’s true, they still do, but when the author writes “oh how wonderful it is in men’s hammam”, oh “how beautiful is the body of a young man”)
What’s better than this, just Arab guys being dudes.
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