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Sunday, June 24, 2007

The Science of Gaydar

I believe I have gay radar. I know you're gay...

> by the way you talk to people
> by the way close friends talk to you
> by the way you look at me
> by the way you look at other people
> by the way you move

But there's an interesting article on looking at biological/genetic attributes that probably set the difference between gays and straights. There's actually a Science of Gaydar. Some points from the article:

> Gay men are more likely than straight men to have a counterclockwise whorl.
> Gay men and straight women have an increased density of fingerprint ridges on the thumb and pinkie of the left hand.
> One study that supports the hyper-masculinity theory of male homosexuality involves penis size. An Ontario-based psychological researcher named Anthony Bogaert re-sorted Kinsey Institute data—in which 5,000 men answered detailed questions about their sex lives, practices, fantasies, and, it turns out, measurements of their erect organs—along sexual-orientation lines. Gay men’s penises were thicker (4.95 inches versus 4.80) and longer (6.32 inches versus 5.99). The measurements, it should be noted, were self-reported and perhaps involve reporting bias, but no one has done a study investigating whether gay men are more prone to exaggerating their assets, so, well, draw your own conclusions.

> It was already known that in (presumably straight) men, a cell cluster in the hypothalamus called INAH3 is more than twice the size of the cluster in (presumably straight) women, a distinction probably created during fetal development when male hormones begin acting on boy fetuses and the two genders embark on different biological courses... In gay men, INAH3 is similar in size to straight women’s.

4 comments:

jenpot said...

sino naman ang tinutukoy mo rito mare? :))

alwaysanxious said...

I'm not pointing at anyone in particular. :) It's just a complicated way of explaining why I feel I have gay radar :)

jenpot said...

joke lang naman... :p ahehe!

alwaysanxious said...

hahaha! patawa talaga ako... but people shouldn't think I'm against homosexuals