Tuesday, March 08, 2005

This is too good... Homophobes are SO CUTE!!!

J Abnorm Psychol. 1996 Aug;105(3):440-5.

Is homophobia associated with homosexual arousal?

Adams HE, Wright LW Jr, Lohr BA.

Department of Psychology, University of Georgia, Athens 30602-3013, USA.

The authors investigated the role of homosexual arousal in exclusively heterosexual men who admitted negative affect toward homosexual individuals. Participants consisted of a group of homophobic men (n = 35) and a group of nonhomophobic men (n = 29); they were assigned to groups on the basis of their scores on the Index of Homophobia (W. W. Hudson & W. A. Ricketts, 1980). The men were exposed to sexually explicit erotic stimuli consisting of heterosexual, male homosexual, and lesbian videotapes, and changes in penile circumference were monitored. They also completed an Aggression Questionnaire (A. H. Buss & M. Perry, 1992). Both groups exhibited increases in penile circumference to the heterosexual and female homosexual videos. Only the homophobic men showed an increase in penile erection to male homosexual stimuli. The groups did not differ in aggression. Homophobia is apparently associated with homosexual arousal that the homophobic individual is either unaware of or denies.

Source:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=PubMed
(Can't direct link, but its there)
And, Google has some articles that refrence this study. And here is more from PBS.

My shirt says "Homaphobia Is Gay", I didn't know it was literally true! I used to think that the best way to deal with homaphobes was to educate them... Then I thought the best way to deal with homaphobes was to just make them feel like unwelcome biggot jerks.. But I guess just kissing them or grabbing their junk is the way to go!

1 Comments:

At 3:56 PM, Blogger Jane Hamsher said...

Okay we ALWAYS SUSPECTED...this is too good. I'm gonna use this one (with credit, of course!)

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