[dogma1138]

I wonder how much of this is linguistic dependent.

Many languages don’t even have different words for sex and gender, Hebrew and German come to mind.

I also find sex as in the act to be quite different.

At least when it comes to male on male sex “sadomy” was complicated through history, it was used to show dominance even in societies where homosexuality wasn’t acceptable especially in adulthood - this is an example of a Japanese propaganda poster following the battle of Port Arthur https://imgur.com/a/t9RtebX

In general it seems that same sex sexual activity has more to do than just sexual orientation, it’s far more common in sexually segregated environments wether it being prison or boarding schools.

And it’s just as commonly used to establish an intimate human connection as it is to assert power.

However I don’t particularly see this as related to what we normally call homosexuality which seems have much more to do with proper sexual attraction and sexual mating.