Homosexuality: Difference between revisions

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'' which is a 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 [[reproductive success]] is largely determined by dominance, male homosexuality as dominance signal may also explain the prevalence of homosexuality above what selection-mutation balance would predict.