It’s mid-morning brain explosion time! Guess who looked at the news this morning…
Gay men who are seeking asylum in the Czech Republic are being put to a ‘sexual arousal test’ to insure that they are, in fact, gay. What is the “arousal test,” you ask? Well, the men are hooked up to a machine that monitors the amount of blood-flow to their penis and are then shown straight porn. And if you get an erection, it’s back to persecution for you!
WHAT!?! This is the most fucked up thing I’ve ever heard! Porn is porn is porn! The whole idea of porn is to get folks hot and bothered. That’s its purpose. The notion that people will only be turned on by watching the kinds of sex they have is downright ridiculous – and, in this case, totally scary that someone would base a person’s safety on that basis. In fact, I would even go to say that it’s rarer for people to only ever get turned on by viewing the porn that coincides precisely with their own sexual actions. Hell, nearly all the lezzie ladies I know love getting off to gay male porn. Gasp! What would the Czechs say about that?!?
Luckily I am not the only one that thinks this method is highly problematic (understatement of the year). The Fundamental Rights Agency is up in arms over this procedure as well, stating that the practice could violate the European Convention on Human Rights “since this procedure touches upon a most intimate part of an individual’s private life.” Seriously!
My apologies for the pre-noon rant, but I couldn’t just sit back and let morons sully the relationships people have with porn. Fuck that noise.
(via Jezebel)
- JD
Oh well, the Czech Republic used to be called Bohemia – now they should renamed Biphobia.