Facultative homosexuality (dictionary)
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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. |
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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 married man who engages in extra marital sexual encounters with other men or intramarital same-sex group sexual encounters (threesome). 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.
