Socially segregated from women, Arab men succumb to homosexual behavior. But, interestingly enough, there is no word for "homosexual" in their culture in the modern Western sense. That is because having sex with boys, or with effeminate men, is seen as a social norm. Males serve as available substitutes for unavailable women. The male who does the penetrating, meanwhile, is not emasculated any more than if he had sex with a wife. The male who is penetrated is emasculated. The boy, however, is not, since it is rationalized that he is not yet a man.
In this culture, males sexually penetrating males becomes a manifestation of male power, conferring a status of hyper-masculinity. It is considered to have nothing to do with homosexuality. An unmarried man who has sex with boys is simply doing what men do. As the scholar Bruce Dunne has demonstrated, sex in Islamic societies is not about mutuality between partners, but about the adult male's achievement of pleasure through violent domination.
As opposed to:
We also (sent) Lut: He said to his people: "Do ye commit lewdness such as no people in creation (ever) committed before you? For ye practise your lusts on men in preference to women: ye are indeed a people transgressing beyond bounds." Al A'raf 7:80-81
"Of all the creatures in the world, will ye approach males, And leave those whom Allah has created for you to be your mates? Nay, ye are a people transgressing (all limits)!" Al Shu'ara' 26:165-166
I beg the indulgence of Freepers who have heard this story, but I repeat it.
When I was in pilot training at Williams AFB in Arizona, we had several Muslim students from Saudi and Egypt.
One day, we were doing what young men do---and traded stories of out partners over a beer. One Muslim student got excited, and told us all how he raped his Philippino servant.
We were horrified.
He was stunned by our silence, and told us all that he was not a "fag." "No---HE was the faggot!" The whole episode disgusts me to this day.