First of all (lets start slow), how would a purely platonic relationship to Xena work? Would you like it? Dislike it? What would it mean for the show and the characters? If you removed the sexual temptation from their relationship how else would it affect them? Could he be a tempter without the sexual lust?
Then what if we stripped Ares of his sexing-up completely, how would that work? Could we have a Greek God without having an explicit display of their sexuality? How would he have been different if we remove the sexual elements to him?
This came up as we we're playing around in the "Without Ares" thread, and thought it might be interesting to make it into its own discussion. So share your thoughts on the matter.

















