The magazine Psychology Today reminded us of a 1996 University of Georgia study in which researchers took two groups of heterosexual men, one group identifying with homophobic claims and the other with more inclusive proclivities, attached their penises to devices that measure arousal, and then watched three types of porn: man-on-man, woman-on-woman, and then some old-fashioned hetero man-on-woman.
Not surprisingly, the study revealed that both groups were aroused while watching hetero and lesbian porn, but only admittedly homophobic participants were turned on by the gay porn.
I feel like this should be called the “No Shit” study. Or maybe the Bishop Eddie Long study. And if homophobia is an indication of deeper homosexual urges, then what does that say about Christian fundamentalists who so aggressively fight same-sex marriage? Are they the true face of gay America?
University of Georgia should now aim their penis meters at Newt Gingrich and Tracy Morgan and see how they react to man-on-man action.
But what I want to know, is if these participants in the study were self-proclaimed homophobes, then why would they agree to take a study that involved someone else fastening a device to their penis, and possibility a male scientist? I mean that sort of gives away the study right there, and before they even got down to the actual porn. A truly dedicated homophobe would never agree to a male scientist fiddling with their junk.
Death and Taxes Magazine
I remember in high school I said I had gay friends and this girl literally MOVED her chair away from me.... now she's the most butch lesbian I know and the person I droll over Stacy Dash with. lol
also don't cis-gendered dudes get boners from things aside from lust? like from emotions like hate, anger, and fear, etc?
also stop pinning homophobia on people who might be ~Secretly Gay~ and start pinning it on Straight Assholes and the Straight Society that we live in, you shitty magazine, god i hate this publication UGH
And I have a personal problem with saying that homophobic people are just repressed homosexuals themselves.
CURSE YOU SPELLING!
Edited at 2011-06-19 03:56 am (UTC)
This is really what it comes down to for me tbqfh.
WE HAVE A WINNER.
Edited at 2011-06-19 04:18 am (UTC)
Don't think too hard about what you might be doing to contribute to a LGBT-hating society, that's silly.
Also, fun fact! Erections can also be a fear response. Just putting that out there.
Also, I had somebody push this article at me, to prove that all people who hate gays are just "closet cases", to which my fucking response was, "Thanks for furthering the assumption that gay people must obviously hate themselves so much". Ugh.
Edited at 2011-06-19 05:02 am (UTC)
(and the percentage was 25%, iirc).
A lot of bigotry is about ignorance and how someone was taught and socialized. Anti-semites and racists don't generally turn out to be secretly jewish or secretly bi-racial.
It's amazing the random things that can get people hard. And it's amazing how something that is super sexy woin't get us hard in the wrong conditions (I would say first among them being in a room with a machine wired to my penis. That's certainly not encouraging the sexy times right there)
And of course, all homophobes are admitted phobes, yeah?
Another typical attempt to try and blame gay people for homophobia