Roots of Homophobia, seems Freud was right

Posted by stjames on August 3, 2001, at 0:53:24

From: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/assault/roots/freud.html
Hostility and discrimination against homosexual individuals are well-established facts. On occasion, these negative attitudes lead to hostile verbal and physical acts against gay individuals with little apparent motivation except a strong dislike. In fact, more than 90% of gay men and lesbians report being targets of verbal abuse or threats, and more than one-third report being survivors of violence related to their homosexuality. Although negative attitudes and behaviors toward gay individuals have been assumed to be associated with rigid moralistic beliefs, sexual ignorance, and fear of homosexuality, the etiology of these attitudes and behaviors remains a puzzle. Weinberg ( 1972 ) labeled these attitudes and behaviors homophobia, which he defined as the dread of being in close quarters with homosexual men and women as well as irrational fear, hatred, and intolerance by heterosexual individuals of homosexual men and women.
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Specifically, the present study was designed to investigate whether homophobic men show more sexual arousal to homosexual cues than nonhomophobic men as suggested by psychoanalytic theory. . . .
The results of this study indicate that individuals who score in the homophobic range and admit negative affect toward homosexuality demonstrate significant sexual arousal to male homosexual erotic stimuli.
James here...
The actual study is password protected but basically they showed gay porn to very homophobic men and not
homophobic men. The homophobic men got erections and other signs of sexual arousal while the other group did not. Isn't that special ? I always wondered why 3 men jumped out of a car and knocked me to the ground and started kicking me, people I did not know and had done nothing to. They were quite surprized when a bar full of buff gay men attacked them. One was about to hit me with a baseball bat. Thank god for buff gay men.
james

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