[Vision2020] The homophobic arousal test

[Art Deco]

Joan,

Thank you for this bit of research.  This is not the only time this experiment has been conducted -- with the same results.

If you remember we have pointed out that many of the loudest homophobes in the CCC, and especially Cultmaster salivating Douglas Wilson himself, fit very handily the profile of those suffering from reaction-formation.

The therapy for this is simple.  However, in view of the HIV problem in Moscow, prudent precautions should be taken.  Perhaps they could "keep it in the cult" to avoid public exposure.

Art Deco (Wayne A. Fox)
deco at moscow.com

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Joan Opyr 
  To: Vision2020 Moscow 
  Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 4:24 PM
  Subject: [Vision2020] The homophobic arousal test


  On 5 Jan 2006, at 14:55, Art Deco wrote:



    Michael,
     
    Thank you for your insight on Doug Farris:
     
    " ...I wouldn’t want it to be lost on the grounds that you do like to talk about what other people do in bed at night."
     
    When someone like Farris concerns themselves excessively about what other people do in bed, it argues that what goes on in their own bed is much less than satisfactory or exciting.


  FYI, I caught the tail end of a documentary the other night that mentioned a test conducted some years ago by psychologists at the University of Georgia. A group of young college men was divided into two groups: homophobes and those comfortable with their own (heterosexual) orientation. The young men were ushered, individually, into a room where each sat in a comfy recliner and watched gay porn with a "penile function" meter attached to his John Thomas. The result? The self-identified homophobes registered physical arousal when shown images of men engaged in gay sex. The non-homophobes registered nothing. What was equally interesting was that despite the physical evidence to the contrary, the homophobes steadfastly denied that they had had any reaction other than revulsion to the gay scenes they had watched.

  Now, I want to make it clear that I absolutely do not want Doug Farris, Dale Courtney, Lou Sheldon, Jesse Helms, or J. Edgar Hoover in my club. I would much prefer that all GLBT people (or those below 5 on the Kinsey scale) were marvelously self-accepting and well-adjusted. Unfortunately, the University of Georgia is against me, and it would seem that those who negatively obsess about what gay men and lesbians do in bed are often sad, latent, and repressed individuals who could do with an understanding, kind, and patient therapist.

  And that's one of the many reasons why I'm not a therapist.

  Marching gaily forward,

  Joan Opyr/Auntie Establishment
  www.joanopyr.com 



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