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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. | ||
Homosexual penetration of another man is | Homosexual penetration of another man is probably the ultimate act of domination. | ||
It is, for example used to emasculate rivals in prison (in addition to satisfaction of sexual frustration). Honor-shame cultures also frequently employ sodomy for this purpose.{{citation needed}} A historical example would be the gang rape of Lawrence of Arabia by his Ottoman Turkish captors.<ref>https://spartacus-educational.com/IRQlawrence.htm</ref> | |||
== Homophobia == | == Homophobia == | ||