Sure it does, but it stops most people, not all. That's why it is punishable by death.
point made, I'm still amazed anyone would risk it at that price
never stopped men from engaging in homosexual activity either though, since such activity has been recorded in history since the beginning of written history, perhaps even before......
people with money and power have always been able to get away with things the common people can't, after all half of the Saudi princes should be dead since they must be the biggest procurers of call girls in the world.....
which English king was it, Edward the something, whose gay lover was essentially running the kingdom, to the chagrin of the Royal courtiers, they came to a nasty end didn't they?