doi: 10.1037//0021-843x.105.3.440
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.
TIL people get erections from perfume.
So everyone who calls me the F word wants to fuck me? Gross.
How did they measure "penile circumference" over time? Is there a guy standing next to them with a tape measure?
Elastic ring that can measure how much it streched.
Makes sense. Albeit I find the idea of someone holding a tape measure more funny.
really hot male lab assitant measures it closely
installing a glory hole in the lab for double-blind studies
Waitwaitwait... The homophobic men displaying arousal: Yeah, sure, of course.
But NONE of the non-homophobic men got even a little ruffled? That's the real surprise here.
Well, they did specifically look for heterosexual non-homophobic men. Apparently, every one they got was honest about their sexuality, both to the researchers as to themselves.
"Two dudes fuckin', cool. Not my thing, but it looks like they're having a good time and that's awesome."
Based study
I could also imagine that the causality is (partly) the other way around. Demonizing homosexuality makes it a taboo for them and taboos are the base for all kinds of fetishes.
Erection doesn't always mean sexual arousal, so it might be anger or they were extremely religious guys that don't watch porn or have sex for anything but recreation and so on.
As someone that used to be homophobic in highschool, I can confirm this is the case. My dad is super homophobic yet all of his kids, including myself, are at least bisexual.
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