Self-loathing over repressed homosexual impulses can transform into antihomosexual hostility

Evidence

An example of the psychodynamic view is the idea that antihomosexual prejudice results from the perceiver’s own “latent homosexuality.” Individuals who have internalized the notion that homosexuality is immoral yet themselves experience homosexual impulses would try to deny these desires in themselves and displace their self-loathing onto others. Adams, Wright, and Lohr (1996) found that avowedly heterosexual male participants’ antihomosexual attitudes were correlated with greater penile tumescence when viewing videos of homosexual sex. This study is consistent with the idea that men who had repressed their own homosexual impulses had (at least in part) transformed self-loathing into hostility toward others. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1566 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Male hatred of women often masks a deeper hatred of maternal origin and embodiment — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 454; Repressing childhood sexuality produces neuroses more harmful than sexual play itself — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1977; Repressed same-sex impulses predict antihomosexual hostility in avowedly heterosexual men. (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Antihomosexual prejudice among men correlates with secretly repressed homosexual arousal #corroborates (0.97) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1566