Because Boystown instills a gay habitus that transmits gay culture, habitus is developmental, as well as forced on us by social structure. It is a method of cultural transmission and assimilation. Habitus is instilled within us by our social relations and social spaces. We learn to be who we are. We also shape ourselves by going to some spaces instead of others. Assimilation changes people by changing the habitus they acquire through the spaces they consume.
