Are you qutng your sexualy? Fd out if you’re gay, straight, bisexual, or asexual. Learn what the terms mean and if they apply to you.
Contents:
- HOW TO LOOK GREAT AS A GAY MAN
- PHYSIL, BEHAVRAL, AND PSYCHOLOGIL TRAS OF GAY MEN INTIFYG AS BEARS
- HOW TO KNOW IF YOU ARE GAY
- ROW OVER AI THAT 'INTIFI GAY FAC'
- AM I GAY?
- GAY STEREOTYP: ARE THEY TE?
- GAY OR STRAIGHT? HARD TO TELL
HOW TO LOOK GREAT AS A GAY MAN
Men general are more visually-oriented than women. Partly bee of this, gay men often put more effort to their appearanc pared to their straight unterparts. Dpe stereotyp, however, there is no narrowly-fed way of... * gay appearance *
Whout beg aware of , most people n accurately intify gay men by face aloneAlthough I've always wanted this particular superhuman power, I've never been very good at tectg other men's sexual orientatn.
Fdgs om a recent study published the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, however, suggt I may be unrtimatg my gaydar abili. In an ial experiment, rearchers Nicholas Rule and Nali Ambady om Tufts Universy pesed onle datg s and refully selected 45 straight male fac and 45 gay male fac.
PHYSIL, BEHAVRAL, AND PSYCHOLOGIL TRAS OF GAY MEN INTIFYG AS BEARS
Abstract. This article discs lbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) people's appearance and body image. First, scrib LGB appearance norms and their funct * gay appearance *
The 90 fac were then shown to 90 participants random orr, who were asked simply to judge the target's "probable sexual orientatn" (gay or straight) by prsg a button.
HOW TO KNOW IF YOU ARE GAY
Rearchers and LGBT groups clash over facial regnn tech that supposedly spots gay people. * gay appearance *
Surprisgly, all participants (both men and women) sred above chance on this gaydar task, rrectly intifyg the gay fac. "Th," the thors wrote, "by g photos of gay and straight dividuals that they themselv did not post, we were able to remove the fluence of self-prentatn and much of the potential selectn bias that may be prent photos om personal advertisements.".
ROW OVER AI THAT 'INTIFI GAY FAC'
And even wh the more strgent ntrols, the participants were able to intify the gay fac at levels greater than chance—aga even on those trials where the fac were flickered on the screen for a mere 50 lisends. For example, when shown only the eye regn ("whout brows and cropped to the outer nthi so that not even "crow's-feet" were visible"), perceivers were amazgly still able to accurately intify a man as beg gay. But they also acknowledge that 's impossible to know om the fdgs what exactly is about the facial featur that give gays away.
AM I GAY?
I was cur enough about Rule's fdgs to look up "gay face" the Urban Dictnary, a popular Web se that offers rmal, er-ntributed fns of everyday (often crass) saygs.
"A man, ually homosexual, wh a distctly effete facial stcture wh some very specific featur; a strong jawle [sic] that lacks promence, space between the ey that rell people wh down syndrome [sic], and a slopg, long forehead.". Now, that one's rather silly and sensatnalized—even polilly spect—and there's certaly no scientific evince support of the claims about the "mongoloid" featur of homosexual men's fac.
GAY STEREOTYP: ARE THEY TE?
Sce effemate gay men utilize siar facial exprsns as women, they velop female agg and mcle ntractn patterns their face. For example, gay face clus tightns around the mouth om pursg the lips, a facial exprsn mon to gay men and women—but not to heterosexual men.
Also, gay men are more emotnally exprsive, leadg to a general 'tightns' and mcular activatn throughout the entire face.
GAY OR STRAIGHT? HARD TO TELL
For example, the send experiment, participants uld still ferret out the gay face when shown the eye regn sans eyebrows and cropped to the outer nthi.
In addn, ntrary to this urban fn, there may ed be subtle, yet prently unknown, differenc between gay and straight fac.