Jane Ward writes about other settings where men having sex with other men is rationalized as meaningless, accidental, or necessary. 37 These contexts include single-sex boarding schools, fraternity and military hazing rituals, and among straight men who visit public restrooms or saunas for sexual encounters. She argues that, counterintuitively, “it’s possible for these homosexual sex practices to actually reinforce heterosexuality, because they provide an opportunity for straight men to show, I am so straight that I can do this without it actually having any consequence whatsoever for my daily
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