\[ **up: [[Sex and sexuality]] | [[Queer]]** ] --- # ‘Prison effect’ > [[The prison effect ‘posits that individuals engage in SSB when the opportunity to mate with different sexes is removed, is named after the popular perception that single-sex contexts, like prisons, encourage “situational homosexuality” among inmates.’]][^1] > ‘We note that measuring human sexual behaviours accurately and ethically is notoriously difficult, making control measures difficult to obtain, and the coercive aspects of a prison context exacerbate these problems.’[^2] [^1]: Julia D. Monk, et al., ‘[[Monk et al, ‘An Alternative Hypothesis for the Evolution of Same-Sex Sexual Behaviour in Animals’, 2019|An Alternative Hypothesis for the Evolution of Same-Sex Sexual Behaviour in Animals]]’, *Nature Ecology & Evolution*, vol. 3, no. 2 (December 2019), p. 1623. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-1019-7. [^2]: Monk et al., ‘An Alternative Hypothesis for the Evolution of Same-Sex Sexual Behaviour in Animals’, p. 1623. (§[[The prison effect ‘posits that individuals engage in SSB when the opportunity to mate with different sexes is removed, is named after the popular perception that single-sex contexts, like prisons, encourage “situational homosexuality” among inmates.’|13.15]].)