aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South
Friday, June 29, 2007
Homo homophobes (again)
No mention in Faye Flam’s piece of the “amazing not surprising” research from The University of Georgia. Done in 1996, it showed up again one year ago in the Know + Tell section of Details magazine. 
It’s not available online, Augusto provides the page scan and comments:
The quote I like: “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 penile circumference measuring device - a plethysmograph. Prof. Adams says his research shows that most homophobes “demonstrate significant sexual arousal to homosexual erotic stimuli”, suggesting that homophobia is a form of “latent homosexuality where persons are either unaware of or deny their homosexual urges.”
There’s more here. We were both sorry to learn that Professor Adams passed away in 2000. Too bad too. I’m not finding any more recent research, though there’s no reason to believe things have gotten anything but worse.
