Unfortunately, once the F
plasmid has been transferred, the
recipient becomes "
male" as well. This is a bit of a bummer, because
bacteria carrying the F plasmid are more susceptible to
bacteriophage attack. There's also no
homosexuality here - the F plasmid encodes coat proteins that prevent the F
pilus from attaching to the carier.
In other words, it's less roughly the microbial equivalent of a penis, except that everyone you have sex with turns into a man afterwards and you're not able to be gay and if you have one you give off a scent that causes dogs to come and attack you.
Thankfully, bacteria aren't intelligent enough to be severely screwed up by this.