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Sodomy = Anal Sex
= Male Homosexuality = Gay =
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"It
is anal intercourse that the heterosexual man generally thinks of when
he thinks of when he thinks about homosexual sex at all, and it is a possibility
that arouses nearly universal feelings of frear, anger, shame, humiliation,
and degradation in heterosexual men" (Odets,
1995: 189).
"Many
gay men as well have similar feelings about receptive anal intercourse,
and, contrary to popular ideas, there are many gay men who have never had
- especially receptive - anal intercourse and have no intention of
ever doing so" (Odets,
1995: 189-90).
"The
issue is so significant among gay men that most, whether consciously or
not, have self-identification and ideas about others that create one of
the most pervasive and powerful divisions in gay communities - that between
"tops" (insertive partners) and "bottoms" (anal receptive partners). The
distinction between tops and bottoms is not simply about sexual behaviors,
but also important psychological issues" (Odets,
1995: 190).
Insertive
or receptive (active or passive). After the decision is made to engage
in anal sex, the next issue to be addressed is which role each partner
will take. Most men in our study has a specific role preference (de
Zwart et al., 1998: 95),
"Men
give and women receive, men are external and women internal, men fuck
and women get fucked. What is most distressing about this dichotomy
is the contempt... [felt] for the 'feminine' position and, by implications,
for homosexuality. Men who routinely penetrate women vaginally (or anally)
and ejaculate within them so often harbor a depracatory sense of... women
are weak, helpless, soiled receptacles of men's externalized semen. For
a man to experience the feminine position psychologically or enact it sexually
arouses contempt in other men, often in women, and, often, profound shame
in homosexual man himself" (Odets,
1995: 191).
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