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Homophobic gay-bashers like gay sex:

Lending credence to that assertion are the results of a study published in the American Psychological Association's Journal of Abnormal Psychology in 1996. Researchers at the University of Georgia conducted an experiment involving 35 homophobic men and 29 nonhomophobic men as determined by the Index of Homophobia scale, a 25-item test used by sociologists and psychologists to determine levels of homophobia. Study participants were self-described straight men as far as sexual arousal and experience. Participants were exposed to an array of videotaped straight, gay male and lesbian "explicit erotic stimuli" while hooked up to a penile plethysmograph. Known in some circles as the "peter meter," the somewhat controversial device measures the degree of arousal in men based on changes in blood flow to the penis. The results? While both groups were about equally aroused by the straight and lesbian porn videos, researchers noted that, "The homophobic men showed a significant increase in penile circumference to the male homosexual video, but the control [nonhomophobic] men did not."

Not even a throbbing johnson could get the participants to admit they were aroused. This fear of arousal may go a long way to explain why there are is so much outrage over normalized gayness - gay marriage, gay PTA members, gay suburbanites. Says author Dan Savage:

"Part of the screaming and yelling about all the sleazy things we do is that that's what they want us to do. That's the role they need us to play so that we can be the sexual scary other and the bogeyman and all these things. They're more threatened by us being boring and paired off and married off and living in the suburbs, ironically enough, than they are threatened by all these crazy sex things we're supposedly up to all the time."

Next time someone screams against gay rights, tell them to shut up until they get out of the closet.