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><ref>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/religionprof/2010/04/homosexuality-as-divine-punishment-in-romans-1.html</ref> Only a highly dominant man can afford to playfully kiss another man on his mouth in public. Since male [[reproductive success]] is largely determined by dominance, penetrative homosexuality may increase reproductive success as it signals uttermost dominance. This may explain the prevalence of homosexuality above what selection-mutation balance would predict.

It is, for example used to emasculate rivals in prison (in addition to satisfaction of sexual frustration).<ref>Hensley, Christopher; Tewksbury, Richard (2002). "Inmate-to-Inmate Prison Sexuality : A Review of Empirical Studies". Trauma, Violence, & Abuse. 3 (3): 226–243. doi:10.1177/15248380020033005</ref> Honor-shame cultures also frequently employ sodomy for this purpose, as is e.g. reported in the Christian Bible (Genesis 19).<ref>http://honorshame.com/inhospitality-as-sodomy/</ref> A more concrete historical example would be the gang rape of Lawrence of Arabia by his Ottoman Turkish captors.<ref>https://spartacus-educational.com/IRQlawrence.htm</ref>