spicyshimmy
let us never forget that in amok time the levels of homoerotic subtext are truly at an all time premium
it’s not just that spock and jim writhe around on the desert floor locked in combat with jim’s shirt slashed open in the front like a traditional boob window, sweating and heaving and grunting and thigh-tangled and groaning.
no. it’s that bones rigs the situation so that jim will have the appearance of being dead—a brief, temporary death. a little death. which is french slang for, yep, an orgasm
so maybe spock didn’t lose the fierce need to mate because of his grief over killing jim; maybe it naturally went away because a little death was achieved after rigorous, physical activity in the most blatant sexual parallel you can possible imagine and this shit was on in the sixties
