On 8/10/06, Jim Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
me:
> > Sabri, do you think that Louis' description is
> > accurate?
>
> Pretty accurate I would say. In rural Turkey
> homosexuality is unacceptable but with one
> caviat: if you are male and not the 'penetrated',
> it is okay. You can even tell detailed stories
> about your homosexual experiences to your
> friends. If you are the 'penetrated' male or a
> female, then you are in serious trouble, so you
> better keep it secret....
sounds like the situation in prisons.
Or Down-Low in Black culture in the USA:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down-low>.
If you take a global view and focus on working-class and peasant
sexual behavior, that's far more prevalent than the bourgeois Western
invention of bi/homo/hetero sexual identities.
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Yoshie
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