Czech erection-measuring test for gays is unsurprisingly controversial

[The Straight Story]

Czech erection-measuring test for gays is unsurprisingly controversial

The Czech Republic has been administering phallometric tests to determine whether homosexual asylum-seekers from gay-unfriendly countries are actually gay. Needless to say, no one is particularly enthused by this policy.

"Trojan concluded that the only way to obtain hard evidence was to administer a test using a phallometric device." So reports Jan Puhl in Spiegel Online about a curious story. The article begins:

Authorities in the Czech Republic have been using a supposed erotic lie detector to test whether asylum seekers are falsely claiming to be gay. But the practice has come in for criticism after the EU's human rights agency found out about it….

The Czech Republic's Interior Ministry sent Rahim and Karim to Dr. Ondrej Trojan, a physician and sex therapist with a practice in Prague's historic city center, for an examination. After asking them a battery of questions, Trojan concluded that the only way to obtain hard evidence was to administer a test using a phallometric device. And faced with either having their erections measured or being deported, the two Iranians had little choice but to consent.

http://io9.com/5718505/czech-erection+measuring-test-for-gays-is-unsurprisingly-controversial

[woo me with science]

1. They said "hard evidence."

Snork snork snork.

But seriously, aren't you REALLY measuring people's erotic fetishes for being hooked up to government sexual devices?

[Historic NY]

2. the next to last sentence is a Duzy.........

[whathehell]

3. Dr. Trojan?

Hard to believe this isn't an Onion article.:rofl:

[qb]

4. Ridiculous and fallible. Stress interferes with arousal.

Conversely, one could focus on mental imagery to produce the desired results.

[foxfeet]

5. Seriously, are gay men swarming to get into the Czech Republic?

And, yet again, no mention of lesbians. I'm afraid to think about what Dr. Trojan (*snort*) might do to women.

[blondeatlast]

6. I've been to the Cz.R. Anybody that WANTS to go there can have it, AFAIC. Prague is beautiful, to be

sure, but the people-- and the rest of the country--meh.

Easily the unfriendliest country I've visited, just short of downright nasty.

[whathehell]

7. Interesting...

I've heard that Russia was not too great in the people skills department either.

[blondeatlast]

8. I imagine some correlation. I've heard there's a history there... nt

[whathehell]

9. Could you explain further...even in a pm?

I'm of half slavic descent myself, and I'm very interested in this kind of stuff.

Thanks.:hi: