Certain tradition from where I come from

You know? Long time ago where I come from a boy would be tested by his father to see if he "was a male" and not a faggot (literal). The father would do this by getting his virgin son to copulate with a paid prostitue and see if his son would get to do it; if the son wouldn't, the father would think that his son was a faggot and would disown him in some cases, but if the son would, he would be seen as a man by his father and related people. Though this isn't done nowadays as much as before.

What do you think of this?

 

It may be from Brazil, but also in certain areas of Colombia it was seen also.

It wasn't so much the virginity, but the carnal act that defined everything; if the man wouldn't do the act that would mean he was a "faggot" and not a real man. As before a man actually was on earth in part to have children being able to copulate with a woman was a test of the man liking woman enough to copulate.

 

Seems ironic that the “test” of a man’s masculinity is to fold under peer pressure because he’s worried about what others will think of him.

 

That's absolutely insane.

 

That's very sad.

I don't want to open up too much of q can of worms here, but I'm curious what people in countries like that think of privileged American gay people claiming to be so oppressed in a society in which they are allowed all the same rights as any other citizen, including the right to marry someone if the same sex. It makes me angry, personally, and it seems like a slap in the face to people in your situation. How do you feel about that? Does it annoy you at all to hear people whining about being oppressed in America, when people in your country are facing actual oppression?

 

Well, I was just asking a genuine question. So if people decide to go crazy about it and get the thread locked, that's not my problem.

 

I disagree, but I'm not going to argue about it. I just wanted to know from someone who actually lives in that other country, because it's rare that I get a chance to talk to someone in that position.