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 permissible 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.