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Non-westernized concepts of male sexuality

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Non-westernized concepts of male sexuality may vary considerably from concepts of sexual orientation prevalent in Western culture Recent scholarship has questioned the applicability of Western concepts of sexual orientation and identity in non-Western cultures.

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Non-westernized concepts of male sexuality may vary considerably from concepts of sexual orientation prevalent in Western culture Recent scholarship has questioned the applicability of Western concepts of sexual orientation and identity in non-Western cultures. The Western concept of sexual orientation is relatively recent in origin, coming into being during the last 150 years. In Western (and perhaps other westernized) cultures, a male who experiences sexual attraction to other men may be classified as bisexual or homosexual. (The use of such categories places him into the same classification as same-sex attracted males who cross-dress and engage flamboyantly in purportedly effeminate behavior.) In a number of other cultures, a male is defined by his (putatively internal) gender; in such a culture, a masculine gendered male (of any sexual orientation) might simply be labeled a man, and males putatively gendered as feminine (tranvestites of any sexual preference, flamboyantly effeminate males who are believed to indulge in receptive anal sex, and transsexuals) would not be considered 'men' but would be classified as members of what is sometimes called the third sex, i.e. partly male and partly female.