Facultative homosexuality (dictionary)

BoyWiki Dictionary: Facultative homosexuality

n

¹ a male whose sexual orientation is predominantly heterosexual but who may engage in homosexual encounters for sexual pleasure and without an emotional component, often in instances where a member of the opposite sex is unavailable such as in a prison setting.

² a predominantly heterosexual male who engages in homosexual sex strictly for sexual release.

Facultative Homosexuality describes a man or boy who lies more towards the heterosexual side of the sexual continuum. A person who is predominantly heterosexual but who does have some same-sex desire and who engages in homosexual sex, typically while in a sex-segregated, all male community such as the priesthood, a boy in boarding school but most frequently it is used to describe sexual behavior in prison (situational homosexuality). It may also be used to describe a person who engages in extra marital or intramarital same-sex sexual encounters. The same-sex physical activity may be engaged in only for sexual pleasure or for power, or control and without having any emotional connection or only having a superficial emotional connection to their sexual partner.

See also

• Situational homosexuality