This classic study, published in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology in 1996, used a delightful technique called “penile plethysmography” to measure porn-induced “tumescence” in men who self-identified as “exclusively heterosexual.” Its abstract concludes: “Homophobia is apparently associated with homosexual arousal that the homophobic individual is either unaware of or denies.”
More fun facts:
In the homophobic group, 20% showed no significant tumescence, 26% showed moderate tumescence, and 54% showed definite tumescence to the homosexual video; the corresponding percentages in the nonhomophobic group were 66%, 10%, and 24%, respectively.
Think about it. Of the penises belonging to this group of straight-identified homophobic men, 80% got more engorged while their owners were watching gay porn. Eighty percent. Of those belonging to non-haters, about a third did. Think about that, homophobes.
Someone should do a Rick Perry parody commercial of him describing how extremely tumescent he gets at the thought of gay sex. Wingnuts will think tumescent means something bad.
I suppose what bothers them is that they can’t really STOP thinking about it…
I would suggest such beacons of heterosexuality as Porno Pete and Bam Bam Barber get hooked up to the machine, but what would be the point? since all of us know what the results would be.
Porno pete is a screaming flaming closet case, no secret there, LOL.
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