Gay Much?
Okay, ladies, back me up on this one -- ever date a guy who turned out to be just WAY TOO WIGGED OUT about homosexuality? I always call them the "don't touch my butt" crowd. They seem to be of the mind that this renders them ultra-heterosexual, but somehow that's never quite convinced me.
Any gay man will tell you that this brand of homophobia smacks of the lady doth protest too much, methinks. And it seems like science is now, er... backing them up. Rupert Murder over at Three P fills us in on a study at the University of Georgia:
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.So, Reverend Dobson, you were saying?
posted by Jane Hamsher @ 4/01/2005 12:00:00 AM
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