Hylas
In "the Argonautica" by Apollonias of Rhodes Hercules has a servant and homosexual lover named Hylas. The story goes that while the ship Argo was beached on an island Hercules sent Hylas to fetch some water from a stream while he himself went to tear down trees to make an oar with. Well, nymphs lived in the stream and one took a liking to Hylas and pulled him straight down into the water. Since no one had witnessed this Hercules couldn't figure out what had become of his companion and became so distraught that he gave up the mission that he'd been on and stayed behind on the island.
If one were to carry through with the story then we can be assured that Hylas fared well enough since he was transformed into an immortal and married the nymph. But oftentimes I'm not so interested in the details of a story so much as with the visual it provides to me. If I were to be cynical I might say that this implies to me the drowning feeling that one can get from certain unwanted attractions, and I do suppose that there is that element to it.
This painting is very similar to my "Temptations of Saint Anthony."