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'''Ancient | '''Ancient Rome''': 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> The Christian religion seemingly broke with Roman precedent by utterly condemning both forms of homosexuality, though Paul's condemnation of the act has been argued to reflect contemporary Roman ideas of the passive role being particularly shameful, as it places the receptive homosexual in the role of a woman.<ref>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/religionprof/2010/04/homosexuality-as-divine-punishment-in-romans-1.html</ref> | ||
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'''Chinese mass sodomy''': One striking historical example is the mass rape of Chinese male captives ordered by the Mongol Great Khan, Ogedei. Prior to the battle, the Chinese, thinking themselves secure with their superior numbers, boasted they would rape the Mongol's women after the battle. This was not an idle threat, as Mongol women often operated near the front lines in supportive roles. After the Mongol's victory, the Khan ordered that the thousands of Chinese captives should be sodomized to punish them for their impertinence. <ref>https://amgalant.com/mongols-rape-and-popular-culture/</ref> | '''Chinese mass sodomy''': One striking historical example is the mass rape of Chinese male captives ordered by the Mongol Great Khan, Ogedei. Prior to the battle, the Chinese, thinking themselves secure with their superior numbers, boasted they would rape the Mongol's women after the battle. This was not an idle threat, as Mongol women often operated near the front lines in supportive roles. After the Mongol's victory, the Khan ordered that the thousands of Chinese captives should be sodomized to punish them for their impertinence. <ref>https://amgalant.com/mongols-rape-and-popular-culture/</ref> | ||
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An alternate hypothesis claims that homophobia is not mediated by homosexual men being poorer coalition partners, but is instead caused by friction between men who seek to forge coalitions based on competence and accrual of resources vs men who forge alliances based on intimate homosexual relationships.<ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780124201903000302</ref> | An alternate hypothesis claims that homophobia is not mediated by homosexual men being poorer coalition partners, but is instead caused by friction between men who seek to forge coalitions based on competence and accrual of resources vs men who forge alliances based on intimate homosexual relationships.<ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780124201903000302</ref> | ||
Much of homophobia may be born from male intrasexual competition in accusations of gayness. Homosexuality may be banned in so many cultures as it taps into these evolved mechanism of competition, so it feels natural to [[bully]], punish and exclude males who cannot get sexuality in the natural way, that is by competing for reproductive opportunities with other men. | Much of homophobia may be born from male intrasexual competition in accusations of gayness. Homosexuality may be banned in so many cultures as it taps into these evolved mechanism of competition, so it feels natural to [[bully]], punish and exclude males who cannot get sexuality in the natural way, that is by competing for reproductive opportunities with other men. However, in many traditional cultures more importance is attached to the sexual role a man takes than to the sex of his partners. Most 'homophobic' stigma is directed toward 'effeminates' (passive males), while active homosexuals are received with indifference or even congratulated on their dominance and sexual success. In cultures with moral systems that sanction all sexual relations between men, there is still some difference in the way they are received: passive homosexuality is seen as a shameful degradation of the self, active homosexuality a form of violence against others. This shame/violence matrix explains why the Ancient Greeks preferred non-penetrative forms of homosexual copulation between free males. It was considered poor form for an erastes to subject his eromenos to sodomy: an act of violence in a loving relationship meant to engender virtue. | ||
===Inceldom and homophobia=== | ===Inceldom and homophobia=== | ||
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A common feminist claim is that male homophobes often have repressed homosexual impulses, which seems to have been indicated by phallometry suggesting a surprising amount of men may really do have slight or even strong androphilia.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latent_homosexuality#Links_to_homophobia</ref> | A common feminist claim is that male homophobes often have repressed homosexual impulses, which seems to have been indicated by phallometry suggesting a surprising amount of men may really do have slight or even strong androphilia.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latent_homosexuality#Links_to_homophobia</ref> | ||
It is typically insinuated that such homophobic males have merely internalized anti-gay views, but in truth homophobia may rather be a rational reaction to a real threat to men's status due to a natural way men compete. | For instance, one study gathered men who claimed to be exclusively heterosexual. The men were quizzed on their antipathy to homosexuals. They were then fitted with penile circumference monitors and exposed to video tapes depicting heterosexual, gay, and lesbian pornography. Only the homophobic men exhibited increased erections in response to the gay pornography.<ref>https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8772014/</ref> It is typically insinuated that such homophobic males have merely internalized anti-gay views, but in truth homophobia may rather be a rational reaction to a real threat to men's status due to a natural way men compete. | ||
===Gay acceptance and homosocial intimacy=== | ===Gay acceptance and homosocial intimacy=== | ||
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*Lesbians are 2.5x more likely than straight women to be obese.<ref name="ref61"></ref> | *Lesbians are 2.5x more likely than straight women to be obese.<ref name="ref61"></ref> | ||
== Gaypill == | ==Gaypill== | ||
The '''gaypill''' is [[pill jargon]] for straight [[involuntarily celibate]] men who think that the only way to escape Inceldom is to become gay. In their opinion they can't get a woman, because women don't want them because they are more strict than men in regards to issues such as [[lookism]], [[racepill|race]], [[statusmaxxing|status]], [[mentalcel|mental state]] or other diseases. On the other hand they believe that men in general don't care as much about these things so much as women do, so that they have an easier chance to escape inceldom by becoming bi/gay. It is a special form of the [[blackpill]]. | The '''gaypill''' is [[pill jargon]] for straight [[involuntarily celibate]] men who think that the only way to escape Inceldom is to become gay. In their opinion they can't get a woman, because women don't want them because they are more strict than men in regards to issues such as [[lookism]], [[racepill|race]], [[statusmaxxing|status]], [[mentalcel|mental state]] or other diseases. On the other hand they believe that men in general don't care as much about these things so much as women do, so that they have an easier chance to escape inceldom by becoming bi/gay. It is a special form of the [[blackpill]]. | ||