Homosexuality and Homophobia.

It has often been pointed out that the opposite of love is not hate -- its indifference. People don't hate things that fail to sexually arouse them -- mailboxes, cd cases, armchairs, etc (If any of you take exception to that list I'm not sure I want to hear about it!). Hate would seem to be more appropriate as a reaction to something that DOES sexually arouse you, but that you cannot deal with.

Homophobia has often been described in this manner, but I've never before seen any kind of a study that tried to prove it. Now this study (warning: PDF) has done just that. The study tested men who had scored both high and low on standard questionaires for homophobia, and later testing showed that only the homophobic men showed significant signs of arousal when presented with male homosexual porn.

Blink, Blink

*taps brain* Is this thing on?

Lessee, I woke up at 10:00 pm last night, as part of an attempt to rotate my hours around, assured that there were no pressing appointments for me before the weekend at the earliest.

Then I found out this morning that the Christmas dinner I was thinking of wasn't this weekend, it's tonight.

So, rather than crash this afternoon and sleep through the dinner, I elected to take a three-hour nap.

Much like the famed three-hour tour of the minnow, it seems to have ended badly. My brain has a hole in the side, leaking sentience and its washed up on the shores of some uncharted island of thought. This is why I DON'T DO NAPS.

I currently have a bit under an hour to regain some semblence of sanity, get gussied up, and head out to the restaurant. Luckily tonights venue is just over a block from my house, so getting there and back is easy. Once its all over, I can be back home and fast asleep within 20 minutes, or at least so I think now.

My brain has been known to refuse to sleep after I've made it wake up. We shall see.