![]() ![]() In these situations, to show weakness often provoked greater assault and so denial of their vulnerability was necessary for survival. Bullying typically came from the father, an older brother or male peers at school. The very masculine actor, Rock Hudson, the quintessential “heart throb” of the 1960’s, confessed: “There is a little girl inside of me” (Davidson, 1986).Īn early environment of severe humiliation has taught some masculine types of homosexual men not to show weakness and to have contempt for their own vulnerability. The masculine type of homosexual man suffers the same internal sense of masculine deficit as the more androgynous or feminine type, but in boyhood, this man typically needed to develop an external “macho” persona to fend off emotional abuse. The reparative principle is the same: there is an eroticized attempt to capture the lost masculine self. I am often asked, “If homosexuality is usually caused by an internalized sense of masculine inferiority, how do you explain the masculine type of homosexual?"
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