doi: 10.1037//0021-843x.105.3.440
So everyone who calls me the F word wants to fuck me? Gross.
this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2025
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they mad cuz they cant
How did they measure "penile circumference" over time? Is there a guy standing next to them with a tape measure?
really hot male lab assitant measures it closely
installing a glory hole in the lab for double-blind studies
Elastic ring that can measure how much it streched.
Makes sense. Albeit I find the idea of someone holding a tape measure more funny.
Probably some sort of pressure cuff that they measured changes in air pressure, or something similar?
It’s basically the same thing as a ring fit adventure, a strain gauge, though research ones are far more sensitive
These things are used in really sketchy therapy like conversion therapy. They were also used in pedophilia treatment in the 90s which was basically conversion therapy to track outcomes, basically exactly as what’s written here (though they wouldn’t present actual illegal material, just risqué material like pictures of kids at the beach or something). Penile plethysmography is the area and it’s still practiced in some places, though it’s pretty controversial because they’re evaluating sex offenders for risk of recidivism and viability of release which is always inherently controversial and other more obvious reasons
It is also controversial because sexual arousal is far from the only reason men have erections.
This study is an example, there's an alternate interpretation that affirms homophobia is actually the result of repressed sexuality, in general. Thus any sexual stimuli would be arousing. Thus causing an erection, regardless of the gender displayed, and irrespective of the person's sexual orientation.
This tracks with the fact that almost all homophobes are politically conservative, tend to be highly religious, or are very young and immature. They all coincide with environments prone to sexual repression.
The other variation is that anger also causes arousing.
This study was too small to control for those kind of factors.
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Waitwaitwait... The homophobic men displaying arousal: Yeah, sure, of course.
But NONE of the non-homophobic men got even a little ruffled? That's the real surprise here.
Well, they did specifically look for heterosexual non-homophobic men. Apparently, every one they got was honest about their sexuality, both to the researchers as to themselves.
"Two dudes fuckin', cool. Not my thing, but it looks like they're having a good time and that's awesome."
it's also entirely possible to find people handsome and attractive, but not be attracted to them an iota.
i'm into femboys and stuff but masculinity has 0 appeal to me, but i still very much think guys like henry cavill (especially with a beard) are visually appealing.
I've had that exact reaction many times at BDSM events. (Technically, that first comma needs to move one word to the left.)
well it certainly tracks with the idea that there's no reason to hate homosexuality unless you hate yourself
I could also imagine that the causality is (partly) the other way around. Demonizing homosexuality makes it a taboo for them and taboos are the base for all kinds of fetishes.
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Based study
As someone that used to be homophobic in highschool, I can confirm this is the case. My dad is super homophobic yet all of his kids, including myself, are at least bisexual.
To my knowledge there is no hard evidence for sexuality being primarily genetical?
There is evidence. See the fraternal birth order effect for just one example:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraternal_birth_order_and_male_sexual_orientation
And scientists have created lesbian mice:
https://bmcgenomdata.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2156-11-62
(Side note: it's hilarious they shorthanded the enzymes to FucM)
today i learned. and it alignes so well with how in medieval times, only firstborns were expected to inherit the family farm and have children themselves. At least that's how it was in many areas.
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Typical of these evil, woke scientists to try to make good upstanding citizens gay with their evil sciencing. Good thing President Trump is putting an end to all this.
Maybe this explains that odd "prayer" group hug of Republicans in the Capitol that was posted these days ;-)
This is going to get the fundamentalists to hate science even more. Heh.
"You fear and reject what you are"
