Are You Gay or Straight?

Contents:

• ARE YOUR HANDS GAY?
• WHAT DO LIMP WRISTS HAVE TO DO WH GAY MEN?
• GAYS VS. STRAIGHTS: ANY DIFFERENC SEXUAL SATISFACTN?
• RIGHT HAND OR LEFT HAND? THIS EXPLAS WHY YOU'RE STRAIGHT OR GAY
• GEIC DIFFERENC BETWEEN STRAIGHT AND GAY FOUND BY NEW ‘SPECULATIVE’ STUDY
• ARE YOU GAY OR STRAIGHT?

ARE YOUR HANDS GAY?

Meanwhile, among the male tws, the bisexual or gay brothers had more "male-typil" hands than the straight on—ntrary to what the rearchers expected—although the difference was not signifint. "Rearch suggts that our sexualy is termed the womb and is pennt on the amount of male hormone we are exposed to or the way our dividual bodi react to that hormone, wh those exposed to higher levels of ttosterone beg more likely to be bisexual or homosexual, " the thors wrote. However, is important to strs, that the evince is currently not strong enough to accurately predict whether someone is gay, straight or bisexual by lookg at the rat between their fgers.

"Some work has shown that gay men have more "male-typil" rats than straight men; other work has shown the oppose pattern; and still further work has shown no difference at all. As such, is not clear whether there is any real difference the level of ttosterone exposure between straight and gay men or how ttosterone exposure might map on to sexual orientatn differenc.

of Toronto's Center for Addictn and Mental Health, homosexuals. rrelatn between left-handns and homosexualy.

WHAT DO LIMP WRISTS HAVE TO DO WH GAY MEN?

straight women, while gay men are 34 percent more likely than straight men to.

evince that lks homosexualy to left-handns, he also adds that. differenc between homosexuals and heterosexuals and is both gay and.

GAYS VS. STRAIGHTS: ANY DIFFERENC SEXUAL SATISFACTN?

the fact that most homosexuals are right-hand, and most left-hand.

After enuragg fathers to “punch” sons who exhib stereotypilly gay behavr, North Carola pastor Sean Harris said on Tuday that he should have chosen different words.

RIGHT HAND OR LEFT HAND? THIS EXPLAS WHY YOU'RE STRAIGHT OR GAY

” Why do we associate a limp wrist wh male homosexualy? This had nothg to do wh homosexualy—the Romans didn’t nsir gay sex, per se, unmanly. In the 18th century, however, Europeans me to thk of homosexualy as a character tra rather than an ocsnal behavr, and gay sex beme the anthis of manls.

Durg this time, limp wrists me to signify not jt ill disciple, but var other supposed failur of manhood, such as homosexualy, exhibnism, and foppery.

GEIC DIFFERENC BETWEEN STRAIGHT AND GAY FOUND BY NEW ‘SPECULATIVE’ STUDY

) As the ornamentatn and leisure of urtly life fell out of favor wh men, a limp wrist—often wh the other hand placed on the hip an “I’m a Ltle Teapot” pose—me to symbolize the unmanly homosexual stereotype.

ARE YOU GAY OR STRAIGHT?

Whatever s origs, the associatn of limp wrists wh male homosexualy was very well-tablished the Uned Stat by the begng of the 20th century. ” At some pot—certaly by the early 20th century, but maybe even earlier—gay men -opted stereotypil postur and hand gtur as a way to signal their sexual orientatn. In a 1919 homosexualy trial New Hampshire, for example, the judge asked a wns how gay men intified each other.

The wns said a gay man “acted sort of peculiar, walkg around wh his hands on his hips… the exprsn wh the ey and the gtur.

In his ntroversial stctns on how to al wh gay-actg children, Pastor Sean Harris picked up on a recurrg theme popular culture: how to tra apparently gay men to assume stereotypilly heterosexual mannerisms. The rollary implitn is that lbian/gay upl have ls of a "battle. It's amazg how ltle rearch has foced on this — jt two studi (1983 and 1991, and they provi only a cursory look at parative gay/straight sexual satisfactn).