Heterosexual Aversion in Homosexual Males A Second Experiment
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TL;DR
Heterosexual males who had been pre-aroused by pictures of male nudes did not respond to pictures of the vulva, the face or the breasts of the mature female with penile volume changes different from those in response to sexually neutral slides, however, in terms of ratings on a four-point scale for disgust, the Vulva was rated significantly more disgusting than the breasts.
Abstract
A substantial part of Freud's (1925, orig. 1905; 1926, orig. 1922) theorizing on the causes of male homosexuality was the assumption of a fear of the female genitals, and according to Radó (1969) “fear of the genitals of the opposite sex is the basic dynamic of the individual who wants a sexual relationship with a member of the same sex”. Radó's stress on the phobic component in the causation of male homosexuality is shared by many theorists and practising clinicians.