> The very act of having sex with a man is so revolting to them, they would never do it. As others have noted, the torture/humiliation angle might outweigh any

> The very act of having sex with a man is so revolting to them, they would never do it. As others have noted, the torture/humiliation angle might outweigh any other considerations. There's also the trope going around from time to time that the biggest homophobes are closeted gays, but I don't know to what extent that is junk science. > But I'm pretty sure this would not happen in Yugoslavia. Up until the year 1990 or so, the whole world would have said exactly this sentence when asked about the possibility of civil war, genocide, or mass murder or rape of civilians in Yugoslavia. And yet... I'm pretty sure that there are plenty of people alive right now in the former Yugoslavia who when asked would tell you that that murder and rape are wrong, yet who committed murder or rape during the war. They would probably try to explain that in wartime things are different, that you have to do them to avoid being ridiculed/punished/killed by your comrades, or that you get caught up in the moment or whatever. None of that means that they are innocent, of course. But in their own minds they can justify doing things that normally they would find revolting.