"That gay men are capable of sex without significant emotional cathexis has given rise to the idea that gay men are “promiscuous.” This observation - one of the key planks in the campaign to keep gay men [nothing more than] homosexuals - tells us little about being gay. The issue has come to the fore because the campaign is focused on sex, and because gay men are typically more forthcoming about their sexual lives than heterosexual men, many of whom envy the sexual freedom gay men experience. Gay men have the same capacity for purely libidinous, uncathected sex that a majority of human males have; but gay men are unfettered by the traditional, socially promoted sensibilities and sexual expectations of women… Heterosexual society has a significant investment in keeping gay sex apparently promiscuous and emotionally empty."
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Walt Odets, Out of the Shadows: Reimagining Gay Men's Lives (June 4, 2019), Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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