While I was carrying out this study, this perspective paved the way for the unmasking of the dominance of psychosexual inversion as the model for homosexuality in Philippine gay culture, which may well be called—for the sake of locally mediated heuristics—a discourse ofloob.According to this model of Tagalog-Filipino selfhood—a model that obviously valorizes psychospiritual depth(loob)-one’s sexuality and identity are based on one’s interior subjectivity, and not on one’s external actions (which are merelypanlabas).Hence, genital males who engage in sexual activities with other genital males can maintain the sexual self-understanding that they remain “really male” (whose sexual love objects are females) because theirloobis “attached” to neither the same-sexual act nor their same-sexual partners.
Taglay ng teksto ang alindog panretorika — na lalong tumitingkad sa pangyayaring isinulat sa wika ng katutubo — upang bumighani sa sakop na kamalayan, iwalay ito sa makamundong alalahanin (“kasalanan” sa wikang misyonero; “pagsusuwail” o “sedisyon” sa wikang gobyerno), at ganap na lamuyutin itong tumingin sa “pakinabang” at kagandahan lamang ng bagay-bagay sa loob ng kinalalagyang panahon at kairalan.