EXAMPLE B: Thumbprint Density (Male)
Gay men and straight women have an increased density of fingerprint ridges on the thumb and pinkie of the left hand.
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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[rimshot!]
:’D
dammit, you know I can’t resist a dare.
[rimshot!]
:’D
Of course, that was a wig...
Great! At last a scientific approach to the problem.
Completely untrue. I just found the story while...
...yes, you guessed it...
combing the web.
I just figured his stagename was based on his real name, perhaps Ryan C. Crest, heir to a huge toothpaste fortune.
EXAMPLE B: Thumbprint Density (Male)
Gay men and straight women have an increased density of fingerprint ridges on the thumb and pinkie of the left hand.
Photographs by Mark Mahaney
EXAMPLE C: Digit Proportions (Female)
The index fingers of most straight men are shorter than their ring fingers, and for most women they are the same length or longer. Gay men and lesbians tend to have reversed ratios.
Photographs by Mark Mahaney
EXAMPLE D: Hand Dexterity (Male)
Gay men and lesbians have a 50 percent greater chance of being left-handed or ambidextrous than their straight counterparts.
Photographs by Mark Mahaney
Now will you believe me when I tell you I only saw Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert fifteen times for the cinematography?
Oh, wait a minute. Your post 28. I, uh...say, do you like gladiator movies?
You won’t brush me off that easily.
I think the author of the article messed up “follicle” with some other word starting with f and containing a couple of L’s...
Suuuure, of courrrrse I believe you. ;’) Obviously your, uh, handle, refers to dentistry...
That sucks.
[rimshot!]
OOOOOOH, a double-entredre...
EXAMPLE Z: Erection (Men)
Gay men are more likely to have an erection at the sight of a fit, active man. Straight men are more likely to have an erection at the sight of a fit, active woman.
OK, where's my taxpayer-supplied grant money?
Wow, look at the boner on the Statue of LIberty!
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