A while back I wrote about a study in which self-reported heterosexual men gave their attitudes toward homosexuals prior to being exposed to gay male . The study found that the men who were the most anti-gay prior to the study were the most aroused by the gay male porn. How did they know this? Well, the researchers measured the blood flow to each man's penis while watching the porn. The more anti-gay a man was, to put it bluntly, the larger his penis got relative to its original size.

A recent series of studies followed up on this research. These studies found that at an implicit, preconscious, level men who reported being the most anti-gay were the quickest to identify as . (i.e., they were quickest to respond to the word "me" after "homosexual" was subliminally primed). Further, the men that had the largest gap between their explicit, reported sexual preference and their implicit sexual preference had the most anger and hostility towards gays. And lastly, these effects were especially strong for people who reported having parents who were controlling. In other words, they men who were the most anti-gay explicitly showed an implicit preference for identifying as gay themselves, and that these people also were the most hostile towards gay people.

Though not part of these studies, frustration is typically associated with an increased chance of . Perhaps then, anti-gay from many men is just a retaliatory thing stemming from their frustration over being sexually aroused by men, but society, and their families, not approving of it, and in turn, them being frustrated over not being able to express it.

That would be a super cool extension of this research to be tested, if I do say so myself (and I do!)

When it comes to men hating gay men, it is in part just a cover up for their gay male . This isn't saying that these men are gay (arousal towards women was not measured in these studies), however, it could mean, at the least, that they are bi-sexual.