Several of his poems speak of handsome boys and homosexual desires but reject physical relationships ("An Argument Against Copulation Between People of Only One Sex"). This exemplifies a tradition of medieval poetry which celebrated same-sex friendship while generally denouncing the wickedness of sexual relations. Some poems, such as the one where he sent an urgent demand that his beloved return if he wished the speaker to remain faithful to him, have nonetheless been interpreted to indicate that more than poetic invention was involved.