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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. | 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 Robison and Anderson from University of Winchester found that most highly confident and masculine men (sport athletes) do engage in homosocial tactility.<ref>https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1097184X17730386?journalCode=jmma</ref><ref>https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/straight-men-cuddle-guys-study_n_5241953?ri18n=true&guccounter=2</ref> | For example Robison and Anderson from University of Winchester found that most highly confident and masculine men (sport athletes) do engage in homosocial tactility.<ref>https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1097184X17730386?journalCode=jmma</ref><ref>https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/straight-men-cuddle-guys-study_n_5241953?ri18n=true&guccounter=2</ref> | ||
More examples can be found throughout human history. E.g. 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 | More examples can be found throughout human history. E.g. 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. | ||
Historically, homosexual penetration of another man was arguably the ultimate act of domination. | Historically, homosexual penetration of another man was arguably the ultimate act of domination. | ||
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One particularly barbaric method of execution, Impalement, widespread throughout the Ottoman Empire in particular, typically involved shoving a sharpened stake up a man's rectum through his body to exit out of the shoulder, with the stake typically being inserted in the vagina in the case of women.<ref>https://emadion.it/en/tortures/the-excruciating-torture-of-impalement/</ref> | One particularly barbaric method of execution, Impalement, widespread throughout the Ottoman Empire in particular, typically involved shoving a sharpened stake up a man's rectum through his body to exit out of the shoulder, with the stake typically being inserted in the vagina in the case of women.<ref>https://emadion.it/en/tortures/the-excruciating-torture-of-impalement/</ref> | ||
== Androphilia as adaptation == | |||
Taken together, the passive and active roles in homosexuality may explain the otherwise maladaptive attraction to other men (androphilia) and the prevalence of homosexuality above what selection-mutation balance would predict. The penetratee can potentially regain access to resources also increasing his chances of reproductive success (allience formation theory),<ref>https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1300/J082v40n01_03</ref> and the penetrator can signal dominance which is especially conductive to male [[reproductive success]]. | |||
== Homophobia == | == Homophobia == | ||