According to The Hesiod, Aphrodite's birth was the result of Kronos' overthrowing and killing of his father, Ouranos. Once Kronos killed his father, he chopped off Ouranos' genitals and threw them into the ocean. Aphrodite was born and emerged already grown from the foam that surrounded the floating pieces.
What would have happened, though, if the goddess of love had been born, rather, the god of love? After all, wouldn't there have a been a 50/50 chance that the resulting offspring would be male?
And what would that have looked like? Seeing a fully formed god of love emerge glistening and wet from the ocean, newly awakened to both sense and experience, running his hands through his hair, embodying physical perfection in a male.
