aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South

Monday, August 27, 2007

IDAHomophobia rerun: homo homphobes

I rerun this every time we catch another one of these sad Republican hypocrites. The last time I reran it, ironically, was in honor of IDAHomophobia (International Day Against Homophobia).

“amazing not surprising” research from right up the road at The University of Georgia. Done in 1996, it showed up again last year 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.