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"Research by an acclaimed US psychologist suggests that 80 per cent of men who are homophobic have secret homosexual feelings. This finding lends scientific support to the long-standing speculation that those who shout the loudest against homosexuality have something to hide. The research results were published in the prestigious Journal of Abnormal Psychology, with the backing of the American Psychological Association. In tests conducted by Prof. Henry E Adams of the University of Georgia, homophobic men who said they were exclusively heterosexual were shown gay sex videos. Four out of five became sexually aroused by the homoerotic imagery, as recorded by a plethysmograph . . . a calibrated band fitted around the penis, which measures any enlargement."

http://tinyurl.com/cwjtb

[Edited on February 5, 2006 at 10:47 PM. Reason : (no homo)]

2/5/2006 10:47:05 PM

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"The research results were published in the prestigious Journal of Abnormal Psychology, with the backing of the American Psychological Association."

Hahahahaha....

Here comes the "OMF PSYCHOLOGY IS PSEUDOSCIENCE" argument.

2/5/2006 10:53:06 PM

Haha, were they aroused by the cockring or the gay porn? (OR BOTH?)

2/5/2006 10:58:39 PM

"You don't know the history of psychiatry, I do."

http://tomcruisetherapy.ytmnd.com/

2/5/2006 11:03:35 PM

is anyone suprised by this?

2/5/2006 11:30:34 PM

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"Four out of five became sexually aroused by the homoerotic imagery, as recorded by a plethysmograph . . . a calibrated band fitted around the penis"

im just getting aroused thinking of a lab tech installing a plethysmograph on my plethy.

2/5/2006 11:36:34 PM

is anyone suprised by this?

2/5/2006 11:38:29 PM

Not really, no.

But I imagine this is going to spark an argument or two.

2/5/2006 11:43:51 PM

The psychologist's study raises some questions:

what percentage of non-homophobic men are aroused by those videos?

Is there a discrepancy between the amount of pornography watched by homophobes vs non-homophobes?

2/5/2006 11:49:25 PM

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"plethysmograph . . . a calibrated band fitted around the penis, "

You know, I had one of those attached to me once... at least that's what the guy in the alley called it. I did kinda wonder why a scientist was in that alley. hmmm

2/6/2006 12:04:59 AM

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"Hahahahaha.... Here comes the "OMF PSYCHOLOGYIATRY IS PSEUDOSCIENCE" argument."

Come on Gamecat, try to at least know what you're mocking....
Psychology ≠ Psychiatry

[Edited on February 6, 2006 at 8:23 AM. Reason : ]

2/6/2006 8:22:07 AM

rick santorum, i'm looking in your direction!

2/6/2006 8:43:24 AM

this makes perfect sense

2/6/2006 8:59:17 AM

Homophobes should force each other to undergo this test.

2/6/2006 9:11:29 AM

so this appears to be the study
http://www.oogachaga.com/downloads/homophobia_and_homosexual_arousal.pdf

but it's from 1996. I guess maybe it was just now published?

edit - yeah that's the case.

btw there's apparently an "index of homophobia" published in 1980 by hudson and ricketts which is what this guy went by, so i think that he's talking about the clinical homophobia - acutal fear of homosexuals - not people who hate gays. just for clarification

so while it would be funny if it were true, it just doesn't make sense if he was saying that men who were raised to hate gays are 80% likely to be gay themselves because of it or anything. it'll be spun that way, but that's not what hte study shows.

[Edited on February 6, 2006 at 9:39 AM. Reason : .]

2/6/2006 9:25:41 AM

I KNEW IT

2/6/2006 9:31:08 AM

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"Study finds link between homophobia / gay arousal"

...in white 20-year-olds in a UGA "research pool" who said they were ones on a scale of 1-7 of gayness.

2/6/2006 10:51:49 AM

I'm guessing it was more scientific than that, and I'd bet the actual study will show that it was if you read it, but as I said above ^^ they're using the clinical term homophobia, not talking about people who have religious problems with homosexuality

2/6/2006 11:05:39 AM

hey on a scale of 1 to 7 im a 1, but on a scale of wanting to watch those videos im a 7

2/6/2006 11:32:37 AM

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"Come on Gamecat, try to at least know what you're mocking...."

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"Research by an acclaimed US psychologist suggests that 80 per cent of men who are homophobic have secret homosexual feelings. This finding lends scientific support to the long-standing speculation that those who shout the loudest against homosexuality have something to hide. The research results were published in the prestigious Journal of Abnormal Psychology, with the backing of the American Psychological Association. In tests conducted by Prof. Henry E Adams of the University of Georgia, homophobic men who said they were exclusively heterosexual were shown gay sex videos. Four out of five became sexually aroused by the homoerotic imagery, as recorded by a plethysmograph . . . a calibrated band fitted around the penis, which measures any enlargement"

Ahem.

2/6/2006 1:03:21 PM

you know, this is probably a little unfair

arousal through the watching of sexual activity, even if homosexual, is probably more a function of body response to the situation around us then actual desire

that is if we believe that sexual activity is going to take place around us, the body gets ready, even if we have no real desire to engage in the activity

2/6/2006 1:13:06 PM

also, there is probably some primative responses to dominance activities through sex in males

this is not the same as homosexual desire

2/6/2006 1:16:08 PM

^^^ right, but the point is, it's fashionable to mock psychiatry these days, not psychology. you brought up psychiatry out of nowhere, as this thread is about psychology.

2/6/2006 2:35:23 PM

More like sike-ology, am I right?

2/6/2006 6:55:01 PM

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"I'm guessing it was more scientific than that, and I'd bet the actual study will show that it was if you read it"

I read the methods section, and that's who they said participated.

2/6/2006 8:59:14 PM

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"right, but the point is, it's fashionable to mock psychiatry these days, not psychology."

You must not know many engineers.

It's been fashionable to mock psychology for as long as the science has existed. Psychiatry is just what the loony Scientologists mock; they're the medical doctors of psychology.

2/6/2006 10:49:18 PM

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"...the clinical term homophobia..."

I thought homophobia's meaning changed whenever the dumbass using it gets contradicted???

2/7/2006 12:29:54 AM

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"It's been fashionable to mock psychology for as long as the science has existed."

Aha. You said science. LOL.

2/7/2006 1:20:47 AM

Case in point.

2/7/2006 1:32:10 AM

i mock the ppl who choose to study it more than the field itself. i mean 90% of the undergrads in psych.....

2/7/2006 9:32:46 AM