"Harry Krause" wrote ...

You're much more contemplative than I am, Chuckster. Me, I think Dave is a
jumble of repressed sexuality.


I offer the following without comment...

-rick-

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http://www.apa.org/releases/homophob.html


Study Links Homophobia with Homosexual Arousal


WASHINGTON -- Psychoanalytic theory holds that homophobia -- the fear,
anxiety, anger, discomfort and aversion that some ostensibly
heterosexual people hold for gay individuals -- is the result of
repressed homosexual urges that the person is either unaware of or
denies. A study appearing in the August 1996 issue of the Journal of
Abnormal Psychology, published by the American Psychological
Association (APA), provides new empirical evidence that is consistent
with that theory.


Researchers at the University of Georgia conducted an experiment
involving 35 homophobic men and 29 nonhomophobic men as measured by
the Index of Homophobia scale. All the participants selected for the
study described themselves as exclusively heterosexual both in terms
of sexual arousal and experience.


Each participant was exposed to sexually explicit erotic stimuli
consisting of heterosexual, male homosexual and lesbian videotapes
(but not necessarily in that order). Their degree of sexual arousal
was measured by penile plethysmography, which precisely measures and
records male tumescence.


Men in both groups were aroused by about the same degree by the video
depicting heterosexual sexual behavior and by the video showing two
women engaged in sexual behavior. The only significant difference in
degree of arousal between the two groups occurred when they viewed the
video depicting male homosexual sex: 'The homophobic men showed a
significant increase in penile circumference to the male homosexual
video, but the control [nonhomophobic] men did not.'