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Now, for all of you silly little nitpickers of sexuality and such, I was bored and reading the IMDB for Johnny Depp (I picked up a new roleplaying character based on one of his characters out of a different movie, and was trying to get some inspiration. I digress).

Anyway, straight from the horse's mouth, as it were. A Johnny Depp quote on the sexuality of Jack Sparrow.

"Well, there was a great book I read. . . . What was it called? Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition. A very interesting book. I wasn't exactly going for that with the character. And Keith is not flamboyant in his actions. Keith is pretty stealth. But with Jack, it was more that I liked the idea of being ambiguous, of taking this character and making everything a little bit . . . questionable. Because women were thought to be bad luck on ships. And these pirates would go out for years at a time. So, you know, there is a possibility that one thing might lead to another." [when asked by Rolling Stone if there is a "gay undercurrent" to his portrayal of Captain Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies]


Basically boiled down, he's right. Pirates weren't exactly the most caring people, about society's standards, or taboo or any of that. And if you have any libido at all, you KNOW that it's hard to live with all that pent up sexual urge and desire.
Now take a look at Jack. Here is a walking embodiement of libido. Take what you want, do whatever comes to mind, or whoever, as the case may be. Why on EARTH would Captain Walking Hormone go without sex?


There. Now for all you naysayers, just remember, don't get snarky. In the JackxMale couples thread, I already told you, it would be utterly ridiculous to think too hard about it. He's a sexual kind of guy, and it would be entirely in character for him to start trying to chat up a palm tree, if he were drunk enough.

The government sent whores to Tortuga? That's rich. rofl
Well, it makes sense really. But there you have it folks, Pirates were by-and-large NOT straight, so why would our flippantly flamboyant Captain be any different.

You can't just zip on over to Tortuga when you're on a galleon. Like Depp pointed out in the quote, they'd be gone for months and years at a time, making port only when they needed to for only as long as they needed to. Not to mention, it's a pretty damn big ocean, despite. The Spanish Main would take about a month and a half to cross on a galleon, in good weather, with the wind fully at their backs the whole time, with no stops.
See what I'm getting at?

That's actually very fitting xp it fits in with the whole nature of Jack I think...a little bit of everything, it doesn't matter..he's a cheat and everything anyway..yeah..I can see Jack as going for "anything" xp

You know my answer to that luv.
Just read my journal XD


... That's an awful lot of O's and exclaimation points. *truncates*
And anyway, even if you don't believe me, why on earth wouldn't you believe the man who PLAYED Jack? I mean, he is, after all, the ONE person who knows the character best.

Harsh wankers of sailors and pirates were basically like inmates with a ship instead of a prison untill they docked.

I wouldn't say that he was gay. He did go to Tortuga and he pissed off enogh women that he must have had relations with all of them. But being on a boat for years out at sea and then not having any women cause they were bad luck. Well, something definitly could have of happened. But I wouldn't say he was gay. More Bi and he was probably drunk most of the time anyway.