Posted: Oct 31, 2017 2:00 pm
SafeAsMilk wrote:Hm, well the idea of fearing you have a desire that you don't have seems strange to me, and I doubt that many people experience that fear based solely on the fact that they find gay sex repulsive. But maybe others have had this experience?
But because there is this popular idea in current culture that homosexual desires can be repressed and that one can be in denial to the point that one is completely unaware of their true, buried orientation. People don't know that they don't harbour hidden homosexual desires; and watching gay images/accepting homosexuality is perfectly fine or imagining homosexuality is frightening/repulsive/disgusting to them because they fear that being exposed to/tolerating/accepting such things will "bring out their true gay orientation". This isn't a problem if one truly doesn't mind if one is in fact gay. Many people aren't there yet however IMO. It's strange because the idea of repression is Freudian in origin and many of his theories have been ditched..I am not aware of any reliable evidence for the existence of repressed sexual orientation..I don't know if he ever said sexual orientation could be repressed but I believe that idea primarily survives in modern culture because that idea supports gays in that homophobia is largely buried/muted/neutered because to admit to it or act on it is to be judged to be a repressed gay - the last thing the homophobe wants. Could be wrong
