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Only a minority of historical cultures and only primitive ones have been accepting of homosexuality (around 20%).<ref>http://www.williamapercy.com/wiki/images/Cross-Cultural_Codes.pdf</ref> | Only a minority of historical cultures and only primitive ones have been accepting of homosexuality (around 20%).<ref>http://www.williamapercy.com/wiki/images/Cross-Cultural_Codes.pdf</ref> | ||
== Receiving gay sex is | == Receiving gay sex is low status == | ||
Access to sex with women is negotiated by dominance status among men.<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill#Men.27s_social_status_accounts_for_62.25_of_the_variance_of_copulation_opportunities</ref><ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1090513817304105</ref><ref>Kruger DJ, Fitzgerald CJ. 2011. ''Reproductive strategies and relationship preferences associated with prestigious and dominant men.'' Personality and Individual Differences. 50(3):365-9. [[https://www.academia.edu/14471033/Reproductive_strategies_and_relationship_preferences_associated_with_prestigious_and_dominant_men Abstract]]</ref> | Access to sex with women is negotiated by dominance status among men.<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill#Men.27s_social_status_accounts_for_62.25_of_the_variance_of_copulation_opportunities</ref><ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1090513817304105</ref><ref>Kruger DJ, Fitzgerald CJ. 2011. ''Reproductive strategies and relationship preferences associated with prestigious and dominant men.'' Personality and Individual Differences. 50(3):365-9. [[https://www.academia.edu/14471033/Reproductive_strategies_and_relationship_preferences_associated_with_prestigious_and_dominant_men Abstract]]</ref> | ||
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Therefore, gayness is associated with low status, and men can use accusations of gayness as means of intrasexual competition and reputation denigration to get ahead in the dominance game of impressing women. Omega males are of no use for betas, so betas exclude and bully them to foil any competitive threat that may arise. Receiving gay sex (the "bottom" rather than the "top") is also widely regarded as submissive and feminine, i.e. weak.<ref>Schippers M. 2007. ''Recovering the feminine other: masculinity, femininity, and gender hegemony.'' Theory and Society. Vol. 36.1, pp. 85–102. [[http://doi.org/10.1007/s11186-007-9022-4 Abstract]]</ref><ref name="NYC">Wegesin DJ, Meyer-Bahlburg HFL. 2000. ''Top/Bottom Self-Label, Anal Sex Practices, HIV Risk and Gender Role Identity in Gay Men in New York City.'' [[https://doi.org/10.1300/J056v12n03_03 Abstract]] Journal of Psychology & Human Sexuality. Vol 12.3, pp. 43–62.</ref><ref>Hoppe T. 2011. ''Circuits of power, circuits of pleasure: Sexual scripting in gay men's bottom narratives'' Sexualities. Vol. 14.2, pp. 193–217. [[http://doi.org/10.1177/1363460711399033 Abstract]]</ref> | Therefore, gayness is associated with low status, and men can use accusations of gayness as means of intrasexual competition and reputation denigration to get ahead in the dominance game of impressing women. Omega males are of no use for betas, so betas exclude and bully them to foil any competitive threat that may arise. Receiving gay sex (the "bottom" rather than the "top") is also widely regarded as submissive and feminine, i.e. weak.<ref>Schippers M. 2007. ''Recovering the feminine other: masculinity, femininity, and gender hegemony.'' Theory and Society. Vol. 36.1, pp. 85–102. [[http://doi.org/10.1007/s11186-007-9022-4 Abstract]]</ref><ref name="NYC">Wegesin DJ, Meyer-Bahlburg HFL. 2000. ''Top/Bottom Self-Label, Anal Sex Practices, HIV Risk and Gender Role Identity in Gay Men in New York City.'' [[https://doi.org/10.1300/J056v12n03_03 Abstract]] Journal of Psychology & Human Sexuality. Vol 12.3, pp. 43–62.</ref><ref>Hoppe T. 2011. ''Circuits of power, circuits of pleasure: Sexual scripting in gay men's bottom narratives'' Sexualities. Vol. 14.2, pp. 193–217. [[http://doi.org/10.1177/1363460711399033 Abstract]]</ref> | ||
== Penetrative gay sex | == Penetrative gay sex is high status == | ||
Since gayness is associated with failure to compete, horny men of high status can use gay sex as a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costly_signal costly signal] of their high status, and also as additional sexual pleasure. For example, in Ancient Rome, gay sex was socially permissable among high status men who penetrated other men (the emperor Nero, for example, had a catamite (receptive homosexual) slave, whom he had castrated),<ref>https://culturacolectiva.com/history/sporus-emperor-nero-eunuch-wife</ref> but receptive homosexuals were deemed outlaws (infamia).<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_in_ancient_Rome</ref> Since male fertility is largely determined by dominance, male homosexuality as dominance signal may also explain the prevalence of homosexuality above what selection-mutation balance would predict. | Since gayness is associated with failure to compete, horny men of high status can use gay sex as a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costly_signal costly signal] of their high status, and also as additional sexual pleasure. For example, in Ancient Rome, gay sex was socially permissable among high status men who penetrated other men (the emperor Nero, for example, had a catamite (receptive homosexual) slave, whom he had castrated),<ref>https://culturacolectiva.com/history/sporus-emperor-nero-eunuch-wife</ref> but receptive homosexuals were deemed outlaws (infamia).<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_in_ancient_Rome</ref> Since male fertility is largely determined by dominance, male homosexuality as dominance signal may also explain the prevalence of homosexuality above what selection-mutation balance would predict. | ||