Homophobia Is Apparently Associated With Homosexual Arousal

[TrolleyDave]

[Investigators] asked heterosexal men how comfortable and anxious they are around gay men. Based on these scores, they then divided these men into two groups: men that are homophobic, and men who are not. These men were then shown three, four minute videos. One video depicted straight sex, one depicted lesbian sex and one depicted gay male sex. While this was happening, a device was attached to the male participant’s penises. This device has been found to be triggered by sexual arousal, but not other types of arousal (such as nervousness, or fear – arousal often has a very different meaning in psychology than in popular usage).When viewing lesbian sex and straight sex, both the homophobic and the non-homophobic men showed increased penis circumference. For gay male sex, however, only the homophobic men showed heightened penis arousal.

Heterosexual men with the most anti-gay attitudes, when asked, reported not being sexually aroused by gay male sex videos. But, their penises reported otherwise.

Homophobic men were the most sexually aroused by gay male sex acts.

That's just part of the text, the whole thing can be found here : http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/06/...sexual-arousal/

It's pretty much what most people have said all along obviously, but it's always nice to have research to back it up!

 

[Rydian]

Yay for proof.

 

[machomuu]

Irony FTW.

 

[m3rox]

Irony FTW.

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I immediately thought that when you posted.

 

[redact]

ahahaha, self-hating *any group/faction/whatever here* suck in general

(was this finding for the majority of homophobic men surveyed or just a notable amount of them? - source article didn't really mention)

 

[iluvfupaburgers]

kinda expected that, oh the irony. wonder how many people actually participated in this

 

[Tonitonichopchop]

I'm gonna treasure this article forever.

 

[s4mid4re]

This doesn't really account as proof to me. The homophobic men could have been so scarred of the gay sex, that they tried to ease their fear by remembering the last two videos - the straight sex and les sex.

EDIT: NO I'M NOT HOMOPHOBIC.

 

[TrolleyDave]

ahahaha, self-hating *any group/faction/whatever here* suck in general

(was this finding for the majority of homophobic men surveyed or just a notable amount of them? - source article didn't really mention)

It doesn't say merc mate so I'm not entirely sure. I'm going to hazard a guess that it was a majority amount, otherwise they probably would have stated that a small amount of homophobic men suffered from it.

QUOTE(iluvfupaburgers @ Jun 13 2011, 04:24 AM) kinda expected that, oh the irony. wonder how many people actually participated in this

35 Homophobic men and 29 non-Homophobic men.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8772014

 

[Nathan Drake]

This doesn't really account as proof to me. The homophobic men could have been so scarred of the gay sex, that they tried to ease their fear by remembering the last two videos - the straight sex and les sex.

EDIT: NO I'M NOT HOMOPHOBIC.

If something completely unappealing or unarousing is shown, if you truly hate it, no amount of thinking back will cause the sexual stimulation. You would need a really vivid imagination to manage that, while watching the film the entire time.

 

[DeMoN]

Generally, the most outspoken people are the most hypocritical. This applies to everything, not just homosexuality. Not surprising that closet gay men might act homophobic, considering that in many places society does not welcome homosexuality.

 

[ShadowSoldier]

This doesn't really account as proof to me. The homophobic men could have been so scarred of the gay sex, that they tried to ease their fear by remembering the last two videos - the straight sex and les sex.

EDIT: NO I'M NOT HOMOPHOBIC.

If something completely unappealing or unarousing is shown, if you truly hate it, no amount of thinking back will cause the sexual stimulation. You would need a really vivid imagination to manage that, while watching the film the entire time.

Which, isn't really that hard (lol PUN) to do. Hell when I'm watching a movie or a show, if I get bored, I'll just space out while still watching it, but still think of other things that could have just happened, or from a long time ago.

 

[TheDarkSeed]

Then Tracy Morgan Must get it VERY hard.

 

[Nathan Drake]

This doesn't really account as proof to me. The homophobic men could have been so scarred of the gay sex, that they tried to ease their fear by remembering the last two videos - the straight sex and les sex.

EDIT: NO I'M NOT HOMOPHOBIC.

If something completely unappealing or unarousing is shown, if you truly hate it, no amount of thinking back will cause the sexual stimulation. You would need a really vivid imagination to manage that, while watching the film the entire time.

Which, isn't really that hard (lol PUN) to do. Hell when I'm watching a movie or a show, if I get bored, I'll just space out while still watching it, but still think of other things that could have just happened, or from a long time ago.

If they noticeably spaced out or looked away, then they would have manipulated the results and made it inaccurate.

 

[CarbonX13]

Gotta love irony...

 

[m3rox]

Which, isn't really that hard (lol PUN) to do. Hell when I'm watching a movie or a show, if I get bored, I'll just space out while still watching it, but still think of other things that could have just happened, or from a long time ago.

This post is sooo revealing!

 

[yuyuyup]

This study was manipulated by the homosexual mafia
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[omgpwn666]

Yeah, I don't believe this. But cool that some people do. This article is saying that people who don't like hanging around with gay people are gay? Sounds dumb to me. I knew a guy from school, right when he came out of the closet he started grabbing all over me and kept trying to hump me and would stuff like, "I'm raping you! Rawr!"... Who ever would hang out with that gay and feel comfortable is really gay.

 

[m3rox]

Yeah, I don't believe this. But cool that some people do. This article is saying that people who don't like hanging around with gay people are gay? Sounds dumb to me. I knew a guy from school, right when he came out of the closet he started grabbing all over me and kept trying to hump me and would stuff like, "I'm raping you! Rawr!"... Who ever would hang out with that gay and feel comfortable is really gay.

You let him grab you all over and try to hump you?

 

[omgpwn666]

Yeah, I don't believe this. But cool that some people do. This article is saying that people who don't like hanging around with gay people are gay? Sounds dumb to me. I knew a guy from school, right when he came out of the closet he started grabbing all over me and kept trying to hump me and would stuff like, "I'm raping you! Rawr!"... Who ever would hang out with that gay and feel comfortable is really gay.

You let him grab you all over and try to hump you?

You got me, I'm gay. lol