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> Your meds are wearing off.
>
> The court decision has to do with men taking it in the ass, and their
> constitutional right to behave that way. They ought not have the right to
> violate the natural desire of men to be attracted to women. They can behave
> that way if they want, but the rest of us have the right to be totally and
> utterly repulsed by that behavior.
>
> I do not begin to suggest that we should hunt them down, but I do suggest
> that when they are caught then we should be able to punish if we want. If
> one state wants to allow that sort of thing, then that stat can have them
> all, if another state does not want that sort of thing taking place, they
> should be able prosecute.
>
> This is not a federal government issue, it is a states' rights issue. If we
> have to ensure privacy rights between consenting stool pushers, don't we
> need to protect the privacy rights of adults with minors, or johns and
> hookers? If there is a "right" to pushing stools, then there is an equal
> right to violate children or to entertain hookers.
>
> This is a bad decision, and has nothing at all to do with your assertion
> that we are good at killing and blowing things up. BTW, if you want to
> praise killing and blowing things up, then praise the arabs. Asshole.
>
That's a lot of good science there, pardner. Who appointed you the arbiter of what's
normal and natural? I think this is your problem:
August 1996 Press Release
WASHINGTON -- Psychoanalytic theory holds that homophobia -- the fear, anxiety, anger,
discomfort and aversion that some ostensibly heterosexual people hold for gay
individuals -- is the result of repressed homosexual urges that the person is either
unaware of or denies. A study appearing in the August 1996 issue of the Journal of
Abnormal Psychology, published by the American Psychological Association (APA), provides
new empirical evidence that is consistent with that theory.
Researchers at the University of Georgia conducted an experiment involving 35 homophobic
men and 29 nonhomophobic men as measured by the Index of Homophobia scale. All the
participants selected for the study described themselves as exclusively heterosexual both
in terms of sexual arousal and experience.
Each participant was exposed to sexually explicit erotic stimuli consisting of
heterosexual, male homosexual and lesbian videotapes (but not necessarily in that order).
Their degree of sexual arousal was measured by penile plethysmography, which precisely
measures and records male tumescence.
Men in both groups were aroused by about the same degree by the video depicting
heterosexual sexual behavior and by the video showing two women engaged in sexual
behavior. The only significant difference in degree of arousal between the two groups
occurred when they viewed the video depicting male homosexual sex: 'The homophobic men
showed a significant increase in penile circumference to the male homosexual video, but
the control [nonhomophobic] men did not.'
Broken down further, the measurements showed that while 66% of the nonhomophobic group
showed no significant tumescence while watching the male homosexual video, only 20% of the
homophobic men showed little or no evidence of arousal. Similarly, while 24% of the
nonhomophobic men showed definite tumescence while watching the homosexual video, 54% of
the homophobic men did.
When asked to give their own subjective assessment of the degree to which they were
aroused by watching each of the three videos, men in both groups gave answers that tracked
fairly closely with the results of the objective physiological measurement, with one
exception: the homophobic men significantly underestimated their degree of arousal by the
male homosexual video.
Do these findings mean, then, that homophobia in men is a reaction to repressed homosexual
urges, as psychoanalysis theorizes? While their findings are consistent with that theory,
the authors note that there is another, competing theoretical explanation: anxiety.
According to this theory, viewing the male homosexual videotape may have caused negative
emotions (such as anxiety) in the homophobic men, but not in the nonhomophobic men. As the
authors note, 'anxiety has been shown to enhance arousal and erection,' and so it is also
possible that 'a response to homosexual stimuli [in these men] is a function of the threat
condition rather than sexual arousal per se. These competing notions can and should be
evaluated by future research.'
Article: 'Is Homophobia Associated With Homosexual Arousal?' by Henry E. Adams, Ph.D.,
Lester W. Wright, Jr., Ph.D. and Bethany A. Lohr, University of Georgia, in Journal of
Abnormal Psychology, Vol. 105, No. 3, pp 440-445.
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