However both theatricality and amphitheatricality find their clearest imagistic expression in the disruption of the landscape in which the doomed Orpheus performs his enchanting song to a 'theatre' of birds, animals and trees (11.22 Orphei...

The obverse is also true: homosexuality is regulated by gender baiting. Gender bending by men is not only derogated by heterosexuals; LGBs also denigrate gender violations by men, often in the name of presenting an acceptable face to the heterosexual world.

Would'ſt thou not rather chooſe a ſmall renown, / To be the mayor of ſome poor paltry town, / Bigly to look, and barbarouſly to ſpeak; / To pound falſe weights, and ſcanty meaſures break?

He told tales of gangs of young British men hired as crew then left to run riot on luxury yachts and also of a stag do he'd attended where competitive tales of sexual excess culminated in one man bragging about donkey-punching a girl a sadistic act performed by a man to heighten his own pleasures.