He didn't really put much in store by sex; it was pleasurable and the world was full of attractive people he liked doing it with and visa versa. He would even go so far as to say that he'd felt affection for many of them.
But it would be deeply dishonest of him to think there wasn't a degree of intimacy between him and Arthur absent in most of his relations.

With Arthur embraced in his legs, the Medicine Seller savoured the feel of him buried in his body.

"The feeling is - ah - very mutual," he whispered, gasping as even a shift of his hips had his lover's shaft pressing up against his sweet spot.