Is Sanzo a virgin?

[louiselux]

It's Monday, time for a poll! So, my Saiyuki friends, here's the question:

[Poll #621505]

eta: do feel free to elaborate in comments.

Comments

[rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com]

Here from telophase. One of my friends in college who was studying the differences in practices between various Buddhist cults and the general Buddhist monastic tradition made a pretty good case for sex being the method by which the office of Sanzo is passed-- I forget her precise arguments, it was based on something involving Chinese permutations of the Indian master/chela relationship-- and I pretty much go with that. So once, in a Terribly Significant and probably very confusing and definitely extremely important and *definitely* on the bottom sort of way, and then Koumyou's death, and then not again after that. And Koumyou Sanzo would've been all conflicted about it, too, and that conflict would have been passed along. This works for me as a general Sanzo characterization, especially since I tend to think that the addition of sexuality reduces the complexity of his relationships with each of the other three.

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

Oh, what a very cool theory. I like the way it might explain a lot about Sanzo and his attitide to sex, and I can imagine it happening something very like how you describe.