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What was always suspected but accepted as fact by many.
PubMed: Is homophobia associated with homosexual arousal?
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.
And here we are fighting for LGBTQ+ rights all over again because the Republicans and people like the oft-divorced-babies-out-of-wedlock Kim Davis are so afraid equality will "ruin the sanctity of marriage."
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I've always said that...
And I didn't know there had been a study on this topic.
Thanks for all the information, as always very interesting.
Jeff
Who knew marrying a MILLION times and having THOUSANDS of extramarital affairs kept marriage so safe? LOL
I worked with a guy who is also a good friend of mine hes ridiculously homophobic and a lot of people including me thought he might be gay. If he only knew about my sexuality I wonder how he would feel
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Right?
Good question. Though, if you treasure the friendship, you probably should not tell him.
In the last few years we have truly learned who are the hypocrites. I’m the forever optimist, but it seems we are getting buried in hatred with cruelty for good measure. Hugs and bisous.
Les homophobes ont toujours été suspects en raison de leur vision rigide de la sexualité et de leur insecurité sexuelle. :\
Un toast au champagne de la part du bel homme Cole Christiansen est le bienvenu. :)
Monsieur Dupuis 🇨🇦
Such bullshit, pure nonsense and the scary part is that millions of Americans are brain washed.
Yes! The ones that react the strongest have something to hide...
What bothers me about the whole 'homophobes are secretly gay' thing is that nobody ever seems to go one step further and ask 'who is it that made them homophobic in the first place?' Stuff like that's always used as a get out of jail free card for homophobic straight people.
What's more important, potentially damaging the friendship or helping him free himself from his internalised homophobia conflict prison?
Well, Jeff, I found I just got to an age that I just don't give a crap about someone else's feelings over my life. I've always been out when I worked (I'm retired) and today make no bones about talking about my husband and our 27 year relationship. If someone can't handle it, that's their problem.
What's really funny is that; we have the same annoying traits as old, straight couples! When I tell them about our foibles, most folks go, "Holy shit! That's US!".
"Our life is dinner with 'Judge Judy' and the local news on the iPad, then he gets his stuff ready for work the next day, and we turn in by 7PM. Oh, and cats. We have two cats."
Yes, as gay men. we are FUCKING BORING. And we would not have it any other way.
Ugh. Eff Kim Davis. Grifting cow.
And we’ve always known the homophobic assholes always get it up with gay stuff. Always.
XOXO
I am just so over this vitriol over "gay marriage", though as one blogger stated, "gay marriage has officially lasted longer than the Confederacy". The right-wing zealots don't give a crap about equality and equity, it is just about X-tian hypocrites waving their bibles or homophobes wanting us controlled and contained.
The issue that will be hard to undo is the equity; people legally married with shared investments in estates, finances, healthcare and in many cases, parental rights (biological, adoption or foster care). The equity just cannot be undone because some asshole says the bible sez it's so.
Much like those same assholes don't give a fuck about a child once it's born, but the "embryo has God-given rights".
When I was younger, I was fascinated by my father's porn magazine collection, he had many about lesbians and, I didn't like it but I admired his taste without knowing that every straight man appreciates it!
Whkattk Thank you,no I would never say anything,there was a comment about who cares say something to him.Its not that easy and under some circumstances it can't happen if that makes sense.I am married to a woman and have been slowly coming out to her and she seems ok with it we're both in our early 60's and have been together for 44 yrs and married for 36.I was 13 when I started high school and my interest in males started then,we swam naked and this was 1975 not a popular time to be thinking about the same sex but this was so taboo I kept dismissing it .Very confusing time for me .
There are oh-so-many of them in the GOP.
Hugs and bisous.
Yep, about 75 million.
As continues to be proven with every GOP pedophile arrested lately.
Sometimes it is their own awareness of arousal. If it is due to an assault or abuse, then the perpetrators need to be thrown in jail.
May that grifting cow end up a recipient of her own hatred.
XOXO
Truth. They'll try to shove it off to "state's rights" which will make a real mess.
It's an odd thing, though, isn't it?
Bottom line: Each couple in a relationship must come top their own understanding and agreement.
Cole is happy to provide the toast!
How's this for a radical perspective:
The male sex drive is strong but it is primarily about the male's sexual enjoyment, not procreation, so it really doesn't matter how a man gets that stimulation necessary for the enjoyment. It's only because women have been largely available that men haven't turned to other men, but society has also been entrenching homophobia for some time to suppress it. Kinsey identified exclusively homosexual and exclusively heterosexual at either ends of what is a bisexual spectrum, so many men will have an interest in both quite normally, although perhaps one prevailing more than the other; but the reality is that male-male interaction is "normal" for sexual enjoyment, including when both men are the same man. Male sexual enjoyment, however that is accomplished, is the fundamental element: it's not gay in any of its forms, just that gay men beat heterosexual men to the discovery of some of those forms, which are not intrinsicly gay just because gay men might use them; we are all men together.
I wouldn't consider that radical at all. I'd say it's pretty much common sense.
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