Can someone point in direction of work on whether male homosexually evolve as a psychological defence against male/male rape being used as a weapon in Socal competition?
You might look at an article such as the one below to give you an idea about how to approach the question:
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Perspect Biol Med. 2006 Autumn;49(4):570-85.
The evolution of a social construction: the case of male homosexuality.
Adriaens PR1, De Block A.
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Male homosexuality has been viewed by evolutionary psychologists as a Darwinian paradox, and by other social scientists as a social construction. We argue that it is better understood as an evolutionary social construction. Male homosexuality as we now know it is an 18th-century invention, but nonexclusive same-sex sexual behavior has a long evolutionary history. According to the alliance-formation hypothesis, same-sex sexuality evolved by natural selection because it created or strengthened male-male alliances and allowed low-status males to reposition themselves in the group hierarchy and thereby increase their reproductive success. This hypothesis makes sense of some odd findings about male homosexuality and helps to explain the rise in exclusive male homosexuality in the 18th century. The sociohistorical conditions around 1700 may have resulted in an increase in same-sex sexual behavior. Cultural responses to same-sex sexuality led to the spread of exclusive homosexual behavior and to the creation of a homosexual identity. Understanding male homosexuality as an evolutionary social construction can help us move beyond the traditionally polarized debate between evolutionary psychologists and social constructionists.
PMID: 17146141 DOI: 10.1353/pbm.2006.0051[Indexed for MEDLINE]
Quite simply, No! This is no more likely than the argument that heterosexuality evolved in women as a psychological defence against being raped.
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