Is homophobia associated with homosexual arousal?

@article{Adams1996IsHA,  title={Is homophobia associated with homosexual arousal?},  author={Henry E. Adams and Lester W. Jr. Wright and Bethany A. Lohr},  journal={Journal of abnormal psychology},  year={1996},  volume={105 3},  pages={          440-5        },  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:8349682}}
The authors investigated the role of homosexual arousal in exclusively heterosexual men who admitted negative affect toward homosexual individuals and found that only the homophobic men showed an increase in penile erection to male homosexual stimuli.

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