First of all, let's take what we know about his early childhood. Being raised by a very old woman does nothing for a kid's sexual development. Especially when that old woman probably knows when you are sleeping, knows when you're awake, and knows when you're trying to jack off, no matter where in the house you are, no matter how far away she is. If I knew my grandmother knew when I was jacking off, any time I thought about touching myself, I would never touch myself in my LIFE. Ahem, anyway, that aside, Ban's grandmother had to be a very intimidating and imposing presence. Living in the shadow of an intimidating old lady would make for a very stifling enviroment for a young boy, especially a young genius whose first impulse was probably to stick his nose into everything he could get away with. It can be assumed that during this time Ban was given an education which expanded to the arts, music, and violin lessons, he saw the big museums in Europe, went to all the historic places, the whole nine yards.
I want to guess that his parents either sent him to his grandmother becuase they thought he was a demon, or later had reason to believe he was a demon, either way I think something with that would why his grandmother evacuated him to Japan? Oooh, finally Ban is living with a hot, busty chick of firm skin and large chest... who's nearly a century old. Ick. Live knowing she's old and wrinkly under there. Boy's headed into puberty and his psychosexual development is already guranteed screwed up. Anyway, hiding from his family, finally out from under of the thumb of a frightning old woman and a strict classical education, Ban has the choice of 1) living with the creepy busty old woman or 2) fleeing to try making his own way in the world after some time of this. Okay, so, 2. Kid's probably 14 or 15 around this time. Has had a freakishly abnormal life with two indimidating female figures. If you want justification for gay!Ban, with some psychological roots, this'd be a healthy start.
So Ban runs away. He ends up with Himiko, who's probably 12, 13 years old, and her older brother Yamato. He says this is the first time in his life that he's had a friend. Therefore we can assume he has lived most of his life with just his grandmother for company, his scary, powerful old grandmother. So he's got friends! Cool! OMG! This is new. Ban is probably a very happy kitten. Things are looking up. And oooooh damn, lookat that, he's forced, for reasons yet unrevealed, to kill his very first friend.
Still very unlikely he has had sex, by the way.
Has had 2 strong female figures in his life who were old and scary and weird. Has had 1 strong male figure in his life who he has killed by his own hand. Has had 1 female friend in his life who probably had barely hit puberty. Is on his own again!
So, we have about two, three years in here before he ends up at the borders of Mugenjou and meets Ginji. Two, three years of his life when he might have had sex. Maybe he walked around and brooded and hated humanity and never had sex. He's obviously terribly insecure and makes a bastard of himself to bolster his own thin self image, born from a very abnormal childhood and lack of male role models. Ban seems to behave with the stereotype of what he *thinks* a man should act like, he does everything to make himself seem 'cool' and 'dangerous,' and if he thought a 'man' would get himself laid he probably did that too until the glitz wore off.
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