It's disgusting. It's degrading. It's tasteless. And it's probably been in your DVD player.

Whatever could it be? Why, it's gay porn, of course.

For a society that has taken on such a harsh view of gays over the past few decades, we sure contradict ourselves when it comes to our hobbies.

There seems to be one large double standard in our society today that I just cannot quite grasp, and it has to do with pornography.

In talking with 10 different guys, I have concluded that, on average, eight of those 10 guys have previously or currently watched porn involving either two girls, or two girls and a guy.

In a society that does not seem to have a high opinion of its gay population, I cannot understand why it is accepted, and even viewed as "hot" to watch gays get it on.

I find it even more bizarre that the same guys who criticize gays also watch a guy have sex with two girls. If he's having sex with them, chances are he is naked; and if a guy is naked, and you, the homophobe, are watching, then doesn't that seem a little hypocritical?

It's as if we are saying we won't let you be first-class citizens and enjoy the rights that we have, but we will certainly buy and download videos of you getting it on with someone of the same sex.

We approve of your lifestyle for entertainment and for our sexual purposes only.

While members of the LGBT community and its allies have been discussing this point for some time now, researchers have gone one step further and have begun studying arousal levels in straight, homophobic and non-homophobic people while watching gay porn.

Henry Adams conducted a study that was published in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology in 1996 on the association between homophobia and homosexual arousal.

His study showed that 80 percent of the straight, homophobes are aroused by gay erotica, though they claimed not to be. This is compared to only 34 percent of the straight, non-homophobes.

And we're not talking about on top of the clothes "fake" porn, we're talking about straight men watching two men have sex, and straight women watching two women.

It is obviously very possible for these people to think they are repulsed by the notion of sex between two people of the same gender, but for these people to actually find it appealing.

I have one homophobic friend, and he is your run-of-the-mill homophobe. He only has maybe two gay friends (both girls), and thinks same-sex couples are despicable. However, upon talking to him about this, I found that his logic is very flawed.

He doesn't have a problem with lesbians. He, like many other guys, finds lesbian couples very attractive.

But one mention of a gay guy sends him into a panic. He's afraid he'll be looked at, checked out, hit on, breathed on wrong, etc. He will not stay in a room if he finds out there is a gay guy present.

He could have a casual conversation and find out he has many things in common with a guy, but the second he finds out his new friend is gay, he books it right out of that room.

I guess I can understand this, to some extent. If he had been hit on previously by a gay man, or even harassed by one, I think he would have ample reason to be worried.

But my friend has had no such encounter. And from what I can see based on looks alone, there is virtually no way he could be mistaken for anything but a straight guy. The gay guys I know, and the gay guys most of my friends know, are students of the fashion world.

They know more about the hottest Dolce & Gabbana trends than any straight girl ever would, and this is certainly reflected in the types of men to which they are attracted. My friend, sadly, has no fashion sense, and thus would never attract a gay man (he has a hard enough time attracting the ladies). His fear, like many other homophobes, is simply irrational and unsubstantiated.

Some may argue that watching porn doesn't really prove anything, but other research has been done regarding specific behaviors. Robin Hoburg conducted a study, which was published in the Journal of Bisexuality in 2004 in which she concluded that about 20 percent of self-identified straight American college women will have some lesbian experience during their college years.

Whether this may range from kissing another girl to having sex with another girl, anything within this spectrum is considered a lesbian experience.

There are some homophobes who do not watch anything but straight porn, and there are some homophobes who do not get aroused by watching gay porn, but these are by far the exceptions to the rule.