Reading the Gay History of Piracy in the Carribean--

What you see is a society based on an uncompensated work-force, preyed upon by its own twenty-something, male outcasts and dropouts. You'd think there'd have been more actual cannibalism than there was--and if those swashbucklers had been straight (heterosexual)--there probably would have been. ¿What is the difference between a bar full of heterosexual young men, and a bar full of gay young men?--The diminished level of violence in the latter.