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Prison sexuality Wikipedia

Prison sexuality deals with sexual relationships between prison inmate|confined individuals. Since prison|prisons are separated by sex, acts are usually conducted with a same-sex partner, often in contradiction to a person's normal social sexual orientation. According to Human Rights Watch in http://www.hrw.org/reports/2001/prison/report.html No Escape: Male Rape in U.S. Prisons, slavery impersonates sexual relationships. Rape victims are often intimidated into actively pretending to consent to the acts, to the point of becoming slaves and the literal property of their rapists. Prospective slaveholders even use intimidating innuendo which the prospective slave submits to, thus hiding even from the enslaver themselves the coercive nature of the acts. The slave might not even realize that they themselves are being coerced, because they may be enslaved when defaulting on a debt and because http://www.hrw.org/reports/2001/prison/report6.html#_1_41 they consider themselves transformed into a homosexual. Government sponsored imprisonment is an inherently governmental and, like government itself, coercive force, so "concepts of consent and coercion are extremely slippery". In fact, the report tells the story of http://www.hrw.org/reports/2001/prison/report5.html J.D., an inmate coerced in this way. "Consent in prison" is argued to be inherently illusory.

The rest of this article sets aside Human Rights Watch's viewpoint, and focuses on the social structures and forms of what is considered to be sex, not rape. Prison sexuality, usually thought of as non-homosexual or situationally-homosexual, shows quite similar dominance traits to those of non-human apes, creating similar relationship structures. Similar animal-based behaviors are widely understood as being part of human nature, and hence sexual relationships tend to follow universal archetypes, which manifest themselves in all aspects of human culture and behavior.

In many cases among men, the insertive partner is not viewed as being gay, and the receptive partner (who may not be consenting) is called a woman, a "bitch," or a "punk". In the United States in particular, Prison rape|rape in prisons is a major problem, and may be perpetuated by inmates who do not see themselves as homosexual. A man who has been raped, or who has had receptive intercourse, is often seen as less masculine and hence a target for future rape and other violence. According to a recent study, 7% of male U.S. prison inmates had reported being a victim of prison rape. A study done by William Speyer, who was a victim of prison rape in 1989, shows that 34% of rape victims released from prison become child molestors. http://www.spr.org/pdf/struckman.pdf

Among men, the receptive partner may be protected by the insertive partner from rape by others, and possibly from fights, and some heterosexuals enter relationships to reduce the number of men they must have sex with. Such men are said to be "riding with" their respective insertive partners.

Similar issues, in a less violent form, have tended to occur in single sex institutions, such as closed campus single gender boarding schools, and in previous centuries in navies. (See main article in situational sexual behavior
.) Efforts to prevent sexual predation in such institutions have had the effect of aggravating homophobia.

The incidence of hepatitis in prisons is very high, though this may be due to inmates having used intravenous illegal drugs before arrest, rather than due to sexual behavior exclusively.