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doi: 10.1037//0021-843x.105.3.440

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 days ago

Not sure what is up with this screenshot. Looks like someone erased something from the sides? I dunno, but the quality is not great. Here's a new one:


https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8772014/

[–] [email protected] 43 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Is this why Republican senators keep getting caught kissin' with other men in public restrooms?

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I mean grindr always reports an increase in traffic around the republican conventions.

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[–] [email protected] 92 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Most of what I learned about LGBTQ came from homophobes. The ones who would not shut up about it.

For example when I didn't know that rainbows were associated with the community. I had friend school over one time. He saw a blanket with a rainbow stripe pattern. He basically had a gay panic meltdown. He was so certain we were a family of closeted gays.

So anyways later on he got a degree from a bible college or something. And he joined an evangelical church. One where they travel around to city streets around preaching from megaphones. Kind of like that Westboro Baptist thing.

In our early 20s he sexually assault me. I found out later from another guy we went to school with that he also forced himself on that guy too.

He's not the only person I've known like this but certainly the most crazy one.

If there's any true to the saying that gays rub their identity in everyone's face. Then it's the homophobe ones. It's got to be a massive projection. It's like they're trying to tell the world but it manifests as some kind of self-hate in denial or something.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

This is going to get the fundamentalists to hate science even more. Heh.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 days ago

Attraction to women doesn't make people not misogynist.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Uuh that's a very difficult thing.

It's like wearing agressive perfume full of hormomes. It might cause somebody to get an erection but it's still hella uncomfortable and annoying. Not really consensual and i see why it pisses people off.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago (4 children)

TIL people get erections from perfume.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

yeah it actually did happen to me irl some years ago when we were on a field trip and a girl who had already flirted with me for the past two days suddenly wore a perfume and i think it was that that made it really difficult for me to stay clear-minded. could have also been the flirting though, i'm not sure actually.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Right here. Maybe not full blown blue steel, but I get chubby if a woman's smell hits me right.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Yeah, that's really weird. I've never heard of this. But I guess if you just make an association in you brain, then it can be a turn on.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago

People will spend a lot of money if a marketer lies to them enough. It should be noted that scientists don’t recognize any human-arousal pheromones. Only shady websites that wanna sell you overpriced perfume.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Aight thats really fair

[–] [email protected] 88 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I really don't like the idea of citing this study. It's always this same one from the 90s, and if it were acurate I expect the results would have been reproduced more. It's also not clear that the results indicate what the paper says. There's other reasons than sexual arousal that could explain the results. It could be they're imagining the scenario and are axious or disgusted by it. There's this paper that indicates homophobia is usually caused by fear or hate.

I don't like the idea of putting the blame for homophobia on closeted queer people. It's seems extremely likely to me that most homophobic people are straight, since most people are straight. Also we should respect other people's own identification instead of trying to force labels on people, even if they're bigots.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I always felt like that study from the 90s is missing part of the picture. Like, it's less 'closeted gay people' that are the problem, and it's more the people who are closeted because it was beaten into them at a young age that being gay means they deserve the worst of the worst.

I think you're spot on with fear being the root cause, and we really have done a good job at making people afraid of their own sexuality.

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