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My guess is it prevents the rubber sticking to the other surface and possibly rupturing when twisted tighter.
This is the rationale I have been given for oiling the gasket.

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I just put oil on because (like 930) the internet told me to.
I out oil on the gasket because my father taught me to. That would have been about 1964.
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