Surprise! Everyone is lying! Everyone is lying because telling the truth would be politically inconvenient!
Good post. I’ve actually seen claims that the description of male homosexuality has been similarly politicized—that the old Graeco-Roman/Mediterranean model of a unusually-feminine “bottom” and a unusually-masculine “top” actually gets closer to the facts in many cases: in this view, modern “egalitarian” gay relationships are arguably a positive development from a pure socialization POV, but they aren’t quite “natural” in the sense of being what the psychology tends to. Oh, and the reason that model is politically inconvenient is the deeply-uncomfortable fact that hyper-masculinized “top” behavior can shade relatively-easily into actual sexual abuse, as seen in the historical ‘pederasty’. (Of course, relative ease is far from implying such abusive behavior as common in absolute terms. But it still counts as a source of unwelcome political controversy!)
Good post. I’ve actually seen claims that the description of male homosexuality has been similarly politicized—that the old Graeco-Roman/Mediterranean model of a unusually-feminine “bottom” and a unusually-masculine “top” actually gets closer to the facts in many cases: in this view, modern “egalitarian” gay relationships are arguably a positive development from a pure socialization POV, but they aren’t quite “natural” in the sense of being what the psychology tends to. Oh, and the reason that model is politically inconvenient is the deeply-uncomfortable fact that hyper-masculinized “top” behavior can shade relatively-easily into actual sexual abuse, as seen in the historical ‘pederasty’. (Of course, relative ease is far from implying such abusive behavior as common in absolute terms. But it still counts as a source of unwelcome political controversy!)