A former Iranian oil worker once told me, “no gay people in Iran, but you can’t have sex or even talk to women. So you find a handler and they have boys they have clipped the balls off. Still smooth with no hair. You have sex with them.” This was in 1979.
Reminds me of when “Little Joe Cartwright” (Michael Landon) was on the old Johnny Carson Show. Went something like
Johnny: “So now tell me, it's rumored that the Cartwright boys were gay - being out there on the ranch with no women around for miles and miles.”
Landon: “Oh I've heard that - it's ridiculous!”
Johnny: “So the Cartwright boys weren't gay?”
Landon: “No - of course not! But thank God Hop Sing was!”