It could mean that participants found the images of male same-sex couples kissing to be equally disgusting as the disgusting images. It is difficult to specifically state what this means. They could have been responding with stress, fear or anger.
Blair, could mean a few different things. There was no correlation found between disgust and a person’s self-reported prejudice – even those who had low levels of prejudice reportedly experienced a heightened physiological response.īut the results, according to researcher Karen L. The creator of the strangers kissing video, we posted a while back, has another video but this time strangers get to undress each other and it is oddly calming yet awkwardly arousing.The video. They found that the men felt more disgust watching two men kissing than the disgusting images. The researchers collected the participant’s saliva samples, which tested their stress and disgust levels. They were also shown other basic images, such as paper clips, and disgusting images such as a bucket of maggots. To get a better understanding of all this totally not gay platonic touch (and penis fondling), I asked Ralph and Roberts to take me through the myriad ways straight guys show affection for each other (totally behind closed doors, of course).
When straight men look at two men kissing each other, their physiological response is the same as when they look at pictures of rotting flesh, maggots and spoiled food, according to new research.Ī group of 120 men watched a series of slideshows of straight and same-sex male couples displaying personal displays of affenction including holding hands and kissing.