#201 ·
Fearless? No, it's Disgust, Not Fear, Drives Homophobia
Some psych researchers over at the University of Arkansas dropped a study showing that "homophobia" isn't actually rooted in fear or anxiety—the way a real phobia works—but in a sense of pure disgust.
Matches my own experience when I first saw those crowds parading around. It wasn't fear. It was straight-up disgust.
That feeling of disgust is basically nature’s way of signaling how broken, sick, and damaging those types of relationships are—warning us they shouldn't be legalized or socially accepted. And honestly, nature knows what it's doing. Just look at the health stats regarding homosexuality and sexual behavior.
More than half of all people diagnosed with AIDS are homosexuals. Syphilis, which we thought we’d wiped out decades ago, is knocking on the door again. In the United Kingdom, for instance, syphilis rates among the gay population have spiked over 600% in the last six years. In San Francisco, it's practically an epidemic. One public health facility in San Francisco sees about 75,000 patients annually, and 70-80% of them are from the gay community, with 59% suffering from intestinal parasites. The risk is massive because they pass these things on to the heterosexual population.
Then there’s the usual list of STDs most common in the homosexual population: hepatitis A, B, C, D, gonorrhea, colon cancer, intestinal parasites, typhoid fever, herpes simplex, Chlamydia trachomatis, Shigella, Entamoeba, Giardia lamblia, cytomegalovirus, incontinence, hemorrhoids, and even tearing the rectal lining which often requires emergency surgery. Life expectancy drops to maybe 39-42 due to infectious inflammation, and suicide rates are climbing because of the mental strain caused by all these physical ailments.
The mortality rates suggest that homosexual relationships are more dangerous than nicotine or alcohol. You also see much higher rates of psychological disorders in the gay community—depression, addiction, stress, identity issues, loss of touch with reality, mood swings, narcissism... you name it.
People love to blame an intolerant society for these psychological issues, but that's a myth. The rates of mental disorders are pretty much the same in places where homosexuality has been socially accepted and legalized for ages, like in the Netherlands. Check this study out: http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=14663994
Bottom line: the disgust we feel toward homosexuality and its behaviors is a natural defense mechanism meant to prevent the biological and cultural contamination of society. So, pushing back against parades is perfectly logical—even necessary. Like that first link says: Disgust, however, triggers a bi-phasic physiological reaction, with heart rate and respiration initially rising but plummeting shortly thereafter. While fear causes a "get me away from that" reaction, disgust manifests as "get that away from me."
Some psych researchers over at the University of Arkansas dropped a study showing that "homophobia" isn't actually rooted in fear or anxiety—the way a real phobia works—but in a sense of pure disgust.
Matches my own experience when I first saw those crowds parading around. It wasn't fear. It was straight-up disgust.
That feeling of disgust is basically nature’s way of signaling how broken, sick, and damaging those types of relationships are—warning us they shouldn't be legalized or socially accepted. And honestly, nature knows what it's doing. Just look at the health stats regarding homosexuality and sexual behavior.
More than half of all people diagnosed with AIDS are homosexuals. Syphilis, which we thought we’d wiped out decades ago, is knocking on the door again. In the United Kingdom, for instance, syphilis rates among the gay population have spiked over 600% in the last six years. In San Francisco, it's practically an epidemic. One public health facility in San Francisco sees about 75,000 patients annually, and 70-80% of them are from the gay community, with 59% suffering from intestinal parasites. The risk is massive because they pass these things on to the heterosexual population.
Then there’s the usual list of STDs most common in the homosexual population: hepatitis A, B, C, D, gonorrhea, colon cancer, intestinal parasites, typhoid fever, herpes simplex, Chlamydia trachomatis, Shigella, Entamoeba, Giardia lamblia, cytomegalovirus, incontinence, hemorrhoids, and even tearing the rectal lining which often requires emergency surgery. Life expectancy drops to maybe 39-42 due to infectious inflammation, and suicide rates are climbing because of the mental strain caused by all these physical ailments.
The mortality rates suggest that homosexual relationships are more dangerous than nicotine or alcohol. You also see much higher rates of psychological disorders in the gay community—depression, addiction, stress, identity issues, loss of touch with reality, mood swings, narcissism... you name it.
People love to blame an intolerant society for these psychological issues, but that's a myth. The rates of mental disorders are pretty much the same in places where homosexuality has been socially accepted and legalized for ages, like in the Netherlands. Check this study out: http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=14663994
Bottom line: the disgust we feel toward homosexuality and its behaviors is a natural defense mechanism meant to prevent the biological and cultural contamination of society. So, pushing back against parades is perfectly logical—even necessary. Like that first link says: Disgust, however, triggers a bi-phasic physiological reaction, with heart rate and respiration initially rising but plummeting shortly thereafter. While fear causes a "get me away from that" reaction, disgust manifests as "get that away from me."
