Somali gay community?

[ailamos]

Thank you Admin.

[Naxar Nugaaleed]

Just a thought for all the male Somali homophobes, I come across this study in some random class...my own cut and paste job for the day...

New Study Links Homophobia with Homosexual Arousal

 

August 1996 Press Release

 

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.'

 

Broken down further, the measurements showed that while 66% of the nonhomophobic group showed no significant tumescence while watching the male homosexual video, only 20% of the homophobic men showed little or no evidence of arousal. Similarly, while 24% of the nonhomophobic men showed definite tumescence while watching the homosexual video, 54% of the homophobic men did.

 

When asked to give their own subjective assessment of the degree to which they were aroused by watching each of the three videos, men in both groups gave answers that tracked fairly closely with the results of the objective physiological measurement, with one exception: the homophobic men significantly underestimated their degree of arousal by the male homosexual video.

 

Do these findings mean, then, that homophobia in men is a reaction to repressed homosexual urges, as psychoanalysis theorizes? While their findings are consistent with that theory, the authors note that there is another, competing theoretical explanation: anxiety. According to this theory, viewing the male homosexual videotape may have caused negative emotions (such as anxiety) in the homophobic men, but not in the nonhomophobic men. As the authors note, 'anxiety has been shown to enhance arousal and erection,' and so it is also possible that 'a response to homosexual stimuli [in these men] is a function of the threat condition rather than sexual arousal per se. These competing notions can and should be evaluated by future research.'

 

Article: 'Is Homophobia Associated With Homosexual Arousal?' by Henry E. Adams, Ph.D., Lester W. Wright, Jr., Ph.D. and Bethany A. Lohr, University of Georgia, in Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Vol. 105, No. 3, pp 440-445.

 

The American Psychological Association (APA), in Washington,DC, is the largest scientific and professional organization representing psychology in the United States and is the world's largest association of psychologists. APA's membership includes more than 142,000 researchers, educators, clinicians, consultants and students. Through its divisions in 49 subfields of psychology and affiliations with 58 state and Canadian provincial associations, APA works to advance psychology as a science, as a profession and as a means of promoting human welfare.

[ailamos]

Interesting... Thanks for sharing this piece.

[Blessed]

LOL. What's a thread about homosexuality without a dose of some good ol' pop psychology,aye?

 

Most of the nomads views stem from religious beliefs / cultural norms. Even if we were to take this silly study seriously, you'll find that the sample aren't representative of the folks on this site...

[Muriidi]

let your desire for/to the future just pass through.. don't try to stop it or question it ..

 

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kuwan lalama murmo ..waxay u baahanyihiin concentration ..

 

 

 

- kuwan soo socdana waa lala murmi karaa .. waxoodu waa "chaos&anarchy"

 

[Qandalawi]

I call for, no, I mean demand for the ban of Muriidi for at least one months from the Admin for bringing back this disgusting, intolerable and offensive thread in this holly month of Ramadan.

[Somalina]

Why not 6 years in cyper prison with dial up internet?

 

muriidi hasn't broken the Golden rules so I don't see why he should be banned.

 

muriidi la'aan waa murugo.

[Somalicentric.]

Horta why do somali folks like to deflect pressing issues? if something does not fit into the "cookie cutter image" it is degraded, or better yet "swept under the rug." There is no dialogue...this is why we have a lot of backwards people in this culture!

 

*god bless the gays!!!

[Neumann]

Originally posted by Blessed.*:

Even if we were to take this silly study seriously...

Dismissing a scientfic study as 'silly' without (apparently) any reason? How convenient!

you'll find that the sample aren't representative of the folks on this site.

How do you come to this conclusion?

[Jacaylbaro]

Originally posted by Somalicentric.:

*god bless the gays!!!

Inaalilaaahi ,,,,,,,,

[Abaay Heylay]

^^Acuudibilaah!!! :eek:

[Tuujiye]

Somalicentric, are you Gay? if u are, i'm sorry to tell you that god will not bless gay's and if they don't come back from their sins, naarta baa sugeysa... Suurad dhan oo quraanka ku jirta ayaa loogaga hadlay..Wili nabi dhan qoomkiisa baa lugu halaagay... jaahilnimo and backwarding, adiga bee ku heysataa...

 

As Muslim, we should not have anything against gay people. However, just because we have nothing against them does not mean we accept homosexuality being ok in our faith. If a muslim is gay, they should repent and come back to god. Allah is a qafuurul raxiim and that’s why we shouldn't judge them. laakiin we can't never say god bless them because he told us what waits for them in the day of judgement.

 

 

Muriidi did nothing wrong...

 

 

Wareer Badanaa!!!

[Somalia]

rudy-Diiriye;220256 wrote:

This is a unacceptable thread bashing somalis and should be removed. Admin plz do something about it.

 

This sherban dude is only posting threads that down grade somalis. Plz try not to down-play somali people all the time. U dont see any one talking bad about Romanians so why dizz somalis 24/7? What have somalis done to you... to make u dizz them like this! thnx

Oooh, now it makes sense!

[Jacaylbaro]

So you are the Muridi by bringing back this topic again ,, eh ?? ,,,,

[NGONGE]

Did I tell you about my dog?