In my experience, the hardcore "anything but m/f missionary is ub de DEBBIL!!!!111one" types are usually closeted and self-loathing. It's practically a law of physics in the US, and while I'm not sure it holds in Russia, some things are pretty well human universals.
Sometimes that happens, and and I think it has been more common at other times and in other places, but (in my own fairly extensive experience,) I think that's a bit of a "pat" overgeneralization. But in any event, as far as Putin is concerned, that's why I said "publicly". I - and I daresay very few "ordinary mortals" - have any idea what Putin's truly personal views are about anything - he's such an incredibly political creature - so I see no point in trying to pop-psychologize him. ("Analyze him politically" sure, but that's a different matter.) Except maybe that given his "career path" and the sort of personality it usually takes to get where he's gotten, the way he's gotten there, I'd be somewhat surprised if he actually
has any strong "personal views" other than a probably inflated sense of self-worth and an overriding desire for power, of course.<lol> Not that I say this to excuse him, of course, but I have no doubt his
public positions on sexual orientation and whatnot are purely about politics (starting, but by no means ending, with his, ahem, unholy political alliance with the Russian Orthodox Church...) My very strong suspicion is that if he finds someone "useful", he truly couldn't possibly care less what they do sexually, with whom, where, when, and/or how...
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