Not surprisingly, the answer is yes!
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.
3 comments:
How surprising...not. Thanks for this, though. I may share this on my blog.
Always good to have confirmation of what we've always known. :-)
Well, it's probably more complicated. Nothing's ever a perfect correlation in science, and I've seen too many "straight" guys jerk off with other guys to assume they're all repressed homophobes.
A lot of 90s and even 00s science had flaws like assuming bisexuals didn't exist.
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