Psychology Today: "Homophobic Men Most Aroused By Gay Male Porn"

[MrMojoRisin]

Yep, it's true. At least according to a new study. I can't say I'm too surprised, though.

By Nathan A. Heflick

Created Jun 9 2011 - 5:26pm


Even a man who thought that women all want to have sex with their fathers and spend much of their life distraught because they lack a penis is right sometimes. This person, the legend that is Sigmund Freud, theorized that people often have the most hateful and negative attitudes towards things they secretly crave, but feel that they shouldn't have.

If Freud is right, then perhaps men who are the most opposed to male homosexuality have particularly strong homosexual urges for other men.

One study asked heterosexal men their attitudes toward male homosexuality. 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.

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 who reported the most anti-gay attitudes also reported not being aroused by gay male sex videos.

But, their penises reported otherwise.

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

Link to article: http://t.co/GYxxRM4

 

[wastingmymind]

But what if that's just general blood pressure?

 

[Ram]

That explains why there are so many at JUB.

 

[Kulindahr]

Interesting.

And while this does confirm what most of us have already suspected about homophobes, I'm still really salty with Psychology Today after their last study declared that black women are scientifically not as attractive as women of other races. I have a difficult time taking their studies seriously after publishing that bullshit.

One has to look at their definition of "attractive" and how the measurement is done.

As in this: it appears they used a penile plethysmograph for their measurements. It's maybe eighty percent accurate, and for dependability has to have frightening and disgusting images as well, because a positive response can come from either or both of those (a positive response can also come from a sudden drop in temperature).

Even without those, it's a strong indicator.

 

[Kulindahr]

But what if that's just general blood pressure?

The instrument they used measures a change in the circumference of the penis as small as 0.1mm. In a controlled situation, false positives are minimized (except as noted before). In a serious study, they usually also monitor blood pressure.

 

[HunterM]

Yeah...homophobes have to act outwardly and deliverately against gays as a shield to conceal their secret desires to be with the same sex.

There's this guy at work who often says "That's gay. This is so gay. What you're doing is gay. etc." He says this to me and other people as well. Now I would not pay attention to this type of comments if they're coming from a teenager. However, this guy is in his late 30's...married with kids. I don't hear anyone else over 30 years of age make that kind of immature comments at work. Believe me, I interact with a lot of people at work. Also...he always has this fascination pointing out people who he thinks are gay...not himself of course.

Afte knowing him for a year, we got drunk at a party. He sat really close to me side by side with a group of other people next to each other around a large table. I felt his hand stroked my inner thigh under the table...closer and closer up towards my crotch.

 

[star-warrior]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9Ye1sMBxUY[/ame]

 

[HunterM]

By the way, is it just me or does anyone else think the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is the most homoerotic event allowed on TV? I know a lot of homophobes are huge fans of those fights and would not say "that's gay".

 

[justndav]

That's very interesting as my minor in college was psychology and one of the major papers I wrote was on this topic. I concluded after doing a lot of research the same exact finding. It was well thought out and well researched and it was probably 18 or 20 pages long. I pointed out all the research very well that I did, control groups, test groups, various experiments I did...etc. My professor who graded the paper was so impressed he wanted to publish it but at the time I was not really "out" and played sports in college and I declined. It was probably a dumb move on my part as I could have had research published and made a bit of money.

But I do find what they report to be true, I've experienced it in my personal life with my father and other homophobes in my own family. And they say being gay has some family ties and its true for me.

 

[ManLicker]

For some reason it reminds me of a great line by Quentin Crisp: " It just goes to prove, some toughs are really queer, and some queers are really tough."

 

[Asenath]

As happy as we are to have our confirmation bias stroked with this headline, Psychology Today is the Weekly World News of publications on the subject. Sorry to say.

 

[kallipolis]

As happy as we are to have our confirmation bias stroked with this headline, Psychology Today is the Weekly World News of publications on the subject. Sorry to say.

This comment confirms my own understandings.

I enjoy reading murder mysteries, which extends to a big appetite for television detective series.

Not only am I non-violent, but detest all thought of murder.

Curiosity may well kill cats, but does not a queer make.

 

[Ninja108]

WHile I have no doubt many homophobic people are in fact self-loathers, there are people who just flat out hate the GLBT population.

 

[freefall]

People always hate something which they have but is against their own norms.
The study is therefore not needed to prove homophobes have gay internal conflicts.

I'm still really salty with Psychology Today after their last study declared that black women are scientifically not as attractive as women of other races. I have a difficult time taking their studies seriously after publishing that bullshit.

Lauryn Hill is beautiful. Beyonce is beautiful and hot. Vivica A. Fox is hot as a fox.
Don't let the majority steer you. It's what you think that is important.

But what if that's just general blood pleasure?

Fixed that for me

 

[HoodedRat]

The whole 'homophobes = repressed closet-cases who are gaggging for cock' theory, may or may not be true; but as for psychology, psychiatry, psychotherapy, etc, etc (and anything beginning with 'psych') ... it's all pretty much pseudo-scientific charlatanesque bullshit.

 

[sixthson]

The whole 'homophobes = repressed closet-cases who are gaggging for cock' theory, may or may not be true; but as for psychology, psychiatry, psychotherapy, etc, etc (and anything beginning with 'psych') ... it's all pretty much pseudo-scientific charlatanesque bullshit.

This.

The craziest people I have ever met were psychogists and psychiatrists.

In my teen years, I hated myself for having gay feelings. Like most healthy people, I outgrew it. For those who may not be so healthy, they continue to repress such feelings and continue to hate themselves. It doesn't seem unreasonable to me that internal hate could then become homophobia and hatred of gays. However, I suspect the majority of homophobes are still straight.

 

[Kulindahr]

The whole 'homophobes = repressed closet-cases who are gaggging for cock' theory, may or may not be true; but as for psychology, psychiatry, psychotherapy, etc, etc (and anything beginning with 'psych') ... it's all pretty much pseudo-scientific charlatanesque bullshit.

You're about thirty years behind the times.

 

[StlKj]

The whole 'homophobes = repressed closet-cases who are gaggging for cock' theory, may or may not be true; but as for psychology, psychiatry, psychotherapy, etc, etc (and anything beginning with 'psych') ... it's all pretty much pseudo-scientific charlatanesque bullshit.

In actuality, it's not, but I respect that you believe it is.

 

[moniker]

Well, knock me over with a feather. Actually, in my experience 100% straight guys never think about gayness or whether someone might be gay. It never crosses their minds and are thus non homophobic.

 

[SLOPPYSECONDS]

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