How are homophobia and latent homosexuality related? Detailed answer

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How are homophobia and latent homosexuality related?

Latent, that is, unconscious or consciously repressed homosexuality is more often manifested in homophobes than in ordinary heterosexuals who do not dislike gays. A 1996 University of Georgia study found that 54% of homophobic subjects experienced erections while watching gay porn, compared with only 24% of non-homophobes. There is another interpretation of these data based on the theory that considers anxiety as a sexual stimulus. According to her, negative emotions from gay porn are the reason for the arousal of homophobes.

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Do bats have teeth?

There are over 2000 species of bats, and it is only natural that there are many differences between them. Most bats feed on insects, but in tropical areas there are some that feed on fruits or pollen. And there are bats that eat fish, other bats, smaller ones, or even drink the blood of animals.

The largest bat in the UK has a wingspan of 33 to 36 centimeters with a body length of 13 centimeters. It lives in wooded areas and feeds on large insects. Fruit-eating bats live in the tropics. Do they have wide, flat teeth that they use to squeeze the juice out of fruits? Those bats that feed on pollen have long tongues that allow them to climb inside the flower.

Vampire bats feed only on blood. They suck blood from horses, cows, dogs, chickens and even attack people. With two sharp upper incisors (front teeth), they bite through the skin of their prey, after which they lap up the blood that comes from the wound. Bats can have 20 to 38 teeth.

Curiously, no species of bat with 22 teeth is known. Some of the insectivorous bats have 38 teeth. So it's easy to see that teeth are important to them. Did you know that bats have been around for so long that they can be considered one of the oldest orders of mammals?

60 million year old bat fossils discovered! The oldest known image of a bat was discovered in one of the Egyptian tombs. This image is about 4 thousand years old.

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