heckyeahhermes:

“Although we don’t think of Hermes as especially sexual, he was a fertility god, responsible for the well-being of the animals under his domain. He had many dalliances but, because he lived on the boundary, he was perceived as bisexual and is sometimes said to have invented the art of masturbation. (Robert Graves suggests that his rapid growth on the day he was born represents “Homer’s playful obscenity.”)”

— Nancy Hathaway, The Friendly Guide to Mythology