ABSTRACT
This chapter describes some of the literature on homosexuality in men’s prisons. Homosexual assaults with their domination and physical abuse associated with an aggressive masculinity are motivated by the latter of the motivations alone. Roth made a map of the Federal Penitentiary at Lewisburg, which indicated the housing location of all individuals known by the administration to engage in homosexual acts. Several studies indicate that many men have their first significant homosexual experiences in prison. The need for validating and expressing the prisoner’s own view of masculinity is evidenced in aggressive and dominating homosexual relationships, such as the sexual assaults. The writings of the 1960s will show a greater tendency to describe the homosexual behavior in prisons in vivid terms, often relying upon first-person accounts of prisoners and ex-prisoners. Prisoners on the whole denigrate frank homosexuals. The jockers seem to totally deny that they are homosexual themselves even though in prison they are “married” to another man.
