The third sex were offered this space to desire men and they jumped at it. They were already vocal about their sexual need for men, so they shouted as loud as they could and made it seem as if they were "men who loved men". This took off a lot of the stigma that they had suffered because of (1) their feminity (2) their preoccupation with passive receptive sex. Since this identity was broader. It did not acknowledge the feminity -- at least as far as the definitions were concerned, nor did it make any differentiation between desiring to be inserted or to insert or neither of these at all. So, the third sex, especially those who were in the twilight zone, who had some masculinity as well -- apart from femininity (those that today, we also refer to as meterosexuals) -- were greatly empowered by this arrangement.

But for the vast majority of men this third sex 'gay' space and identity is simply unacceptable.