Contemporary Perceptions of Male vs. Female Sodomy

I think the idea of sodomy between women being a lesser crime than sodomy between men is an interesting because I feel like that same sort of idea can be applied to our modern culture. It seems to me that even in the twenty-first century acts similar to sodomy between women are more acceptable and prominent than acts of sodomy between men. For instance, there is a great industry for videos like Girls Gone Wild, in which girls practice promiscuous activities- many times around or with other females- that are like a diluted form of sodomy. But I’ve yet to hear of a Boys Gone Wild franchise that displays males acting overtly sexual with other males. Moreover, pornographic media like Playboy also depicts females acting sexually with each other in a nonchalant manner; however, Playboy’s counterpart, Playgirl, has a much less prominent impact in the media, and this could in part be due to our society’s greater reluctance to accept male sodomy than female sodomy. Additionally, a few years ago the pop singer Katy Perry released her song “I Kissed a Girl”, which catapulted her into mainstream success. However, if a male artist released a song called “I Kissed a Boy” that song would probably not have been as easily accepted by radio stations and other mass media because I think male sodomy is still perceived as much more serious act even in contemporary society, and it is much easier to make the act of two females kissing each other seem flippant than two males kissing each other. This difference in the way our media represents same sex sexuality demonstrates how the idea of male sodomy being a worse crime than female sodomy still has vestigial traces left in our culture.