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 a romantic 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 at a 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 extramarital sexual encounters with other men or intramarital same-sex group sexual encounters (threesome) and other similar sexual behavior where two males are involved. 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 having only a superficial non-romantic emotional connection to their sexual partner. Facultative homosexuality differs from homosexuality and bisexuality and other sexual orientations in that the person involved lacks the capacity to form same-sex emotional romantic attachments. In other words, it is simply for sexual gratification and sexual release and therefore a man who engages in facultative homosexuality while in prison, once released, would typically return to his more normative sexual practices with a member of the opposite sex.

See also

• Situational homosexuality