EXAMPLE A: Hair Whorl (Men)
Gay men are more likely than straight men to have a counterclockwise whorl.
Photographs by Mark Mahaney
Posted on 06/19/2007 12:18:57 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Richard Lippa, a psychologist from California State University at Fullerton, is one of the leading cataloguers of the many ways in which gay people are different. I caught up with him a few weeks ago at a booth at the Long Beach Pride Festival in Southern California, where he was researching another hypothesis -- that the hair-whorl patterns on gay heads are more likely to go counterclockwise. If true, it will be one more clue to our biological uniqueness... "We assume that whatever causes people to be right-handed or left-handed is also causing hair whorl. The theory we're testing is that there's a common gene responsible for both." And that gene might be a marker for sexual orientation. So, as part of his study, he has swabbed the inside cheek of his subjects. It will be months before that DNA testing is complete... "If I could tell my mother it's a gene, she would be so happy," said one, Scott Quesada, 42, who sat in a chair for Lippa's inspection... By the end of the two-day festival, Lippa had gathered survey data from more than 50 short-haired men and photographed their pates (women were excluded because their hairstyles, even at the pride festival, were too long for simple determination; crewcuts are the ideal Rorschach, he explains). About 23 percent had counterclockwise hair whorls. In the general population, that figure is 8 percent.
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EXAMPLE A: Hair Whorl (Men)
Gay men are more likely than straight men to have a counterclockwise whorl.
Photographs by Mark Mahaney
Gaydar founder death fall probed
BBC | 02/12/2007
Posted on 02/13/2007 3:03:41 PM EST by Responsibility2nd
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1784167/posts
I know a cow when I see one.
I have Haydar.
I wonder if it makes a difference if the men live in the Northern Hemisphere or Southern Hemishere as to what is the predominant Whorl?
I have no “whorl”. What does that make me, an asexual pod-person?
DO NOT Google image search "Gaydar" for pictures to post with funny comments. You'll be sorry.
Take a look at the smile of Ryan Seacrest. I don't know for sure if he is homosexual but his large open smile sets off my gaydar.
Hair whorls? Give me a freaking break....
To say nothing of a very pronounced Warhol.
There’s the proof.....LOL...good one!
you are using two mirrors to look at the top of the back of your head right now, aintcha? ; )
I have Paydar.
No.
sorry, baldie....
[rimshot!]
:’D
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