Homophobic Men Most Aroused by Gay Male Porn

A recent post on Psychology Today brings up a topic that seems proven by some of the worse homophobes of the Christian Taliban that I have interacted with over the years via e-mail debates. What is it? It's the fact that these individuals are self-loathing closet cases that are in denial about their own craving for male to male intimacy. Robert Knight (pictured at right) and Peter LaBarbera are but two such individuals. They are far too hysterical about the issue of gays and strike me as severely conflicted by their religious brainwashing which collides with their repressed inner most desires. One could almost feel sad for such people but for the damage they do to so many others. Here are highlights from the story:
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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.
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One study 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).
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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.
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An abstract of the referenced study can be found here. The last three sentences of the abstract states: 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.