Definitely chemical. Including non-substance addiction, they also work thru body chemistry. No matter if OCD, sex addiction or whatever, there's always a relation to the dopamine and/or endorphine system.
No. My boyfriend is legit homophobic.
He doesn't hate them. He doesn't dislike them. His own sister is trans and gay. Mine is trans. He loves them.
But watching gays be affectionate towards one another sincerely bothers him on a level he can't understand. Like me with clowns. Like most with spiders.
Homophobia is real. And it doesn't make that person an asshole. They can't help it.
Did he also tell you he could get cancer if he didn't come after getting a hard-on? He's a homophobe who doesn't want to get called a homophobe. What's next? KKK members are not really racist assholes, they just got a condition?
The theory that homophobia is something a person cannot control. That's one of todays problems: people want to be assholes, but they don't want to be called assholes.
People from my surroundings fire teachers from schools out of FEAR that they'll "infect" kids with gayness or/and "with aids". It's bare ignorance, but not their fault, their teachers taught them like that. Can it be changed. I give it 5% chance. It even needs clinical observation. And it is phobia. It is fear and it is irrational. At least here. And if some rednecks act like that in your normal countries, even though they have brothers/sisters they can't watch them kiss, well I can't watch you dry hump your balls with your hand, why don't you deport them here. And import me there.
He doesn't hate them. He doesn't dislike them. His own sister is trans and gay. Mine is trans. He loves them.
But watching gays be affectionate towards one another sincerely bothers him on a level he can't understand. Like me with clowns. Like most with spiders.
Homophobia is real. And it doesn't make that person an asshole. They can't help it.