Sexual orientation revealed by body type and motion, study suggests

[quote] The findings also are part of mounting evidence suggesting that sexual orientation may actually be what social scientists call a "master status category," or a defining characteristic that observers cannot help but notice and which has been scientifically shown to color all subsequent social dealings with others.

[quote] "Once you know a person's sexual orientation, the fact has consequences for all subsequent interactions, and our findings suggest that this category of information can be deduced from subtle clues in body movement," Johnson said.

That body type does not describe me.

Asteroids do not concern me, admiral.

16 people is not enough to provide meaningful data.

Is this that thing where you finally screw up all your courage, come out, and they say they’ve known all along?

“It was my shoulder swagger, wasn’t it?”

So gay men have birthing hips?

[quote]body motions

It's called sashaying.

I have the hourglass figure, lol, but never saw it in other gay men. I remember in high school I sat next to a lesbian and she made me feel her washboard abs.

Gay men walk as if we are choreographing to a song loudspeakering inside of our heads.

[quote] loudspeakering inside of our heads.

For this homo it’s just tinnitus.

[quote] loudspeakering

Should it be loudspeaking?

[quote]Once you know a person's sexual orientation, the fact has consequences for all subsequent interactions

Well sure--if you're on Tinder or Grindr.

But otherwise, do we really believe in 2025 that everyone will treat a person differently ever after if we find out that person's orientation is not the one we thought? I don't like this study and I sure don't like this being its premise. It's UCLA, FFS, not the University of Dogpatch.

Why are you so good to me?

Insignificant sample size; this article should have never been published.

Is r13 the fake Now, Voyager dialogue troll?

“You sayin I walk gay?”

R6 My ex did have oddly shaped hips. Maybe this explains it.

As others have already pointed out ("16 people...", "Insignificant sample size") this study is fatally flawed.

It's also from 2007.

[quote]If casual observers can determine sexual orientation with minimal information, then the value in concealing this information certainly appears questionable.

And fails to take into account code-shifting, passing, or any of the multitude of factors that make up gaydar. Again, a flawed study; were the subjects told what they were looking at/for? Were they coached in any way, including not at all? The hiccup is that in a study like this (if it were being conducted legitimately or with any desire to produce authentic results) is that the information provided to the subjects is paramount in understanding the conclusions. Even that the study appears to come out of UCLA makes the conclusions suspect; people are far more open and revealing in a liberal city than they are in a conservative town.

Yeah, gaydar is real. Thanks for the laughs.

I call bullshit on this "study."

I have what can be charitably called "childbearing hips." I also have somewhat narrow shoulders. My straight sisters had much more upper body strength than I've ever had.

My youngest sister, with her broad shoulders (HS swimmer), large breasts, and perfect hourglass figure has often been cruised by women. Me? Puh.

Je suis fatty gay 😅

Prancing. Sure sign.

Does my extended belly make me look fat?

Distended!

It's an 18 year old study. Yes, it's too small of a sample for subjects, but they had 112 observers (significant amount) to view their walk and see if they could guess.

60% were able to select the gay men but they could not accurately guess the women. This also is meaningless - just slight better than a toin-coss for men and meaningless for women.

All of this based on FOUR gay men at UCLA in 2006/2007. I would have to say picking any undergrads who were out back then (or even today) would have skewed the sample.

This is a really flawed study and the researchers should be embarrassed to publish this.

I do think there are some gay men that you can tell by the way their walk - that's undeniable. But many straight people are taken back when they go to a gay bar and see all of these 'regular' types that they would never have guessed were gay.

God most people are surprised to know I'm gay even if they've known me a long time. Only once did a woman know off the bat I was gay and she was drunk.

R25 is Butch Buchholz.

Wow.

Sixteen cases divided into two subsets of eight.

[quote] casting a cold eye

I view this study with side wonky eye.

Why are people utterly obsessed with finding some physical differences in gays vs straights.

It like the millions of dollars that went into finding physical differences between blacks and whites—ultimately finding nothing

Because people are obsessed by difference rather than what brings us together.

R29 - I'm not necessarily opposed to this study - but I'm just shocked how any research supervisor would allow this to go forward.

All of this based on 4 gays and 4 lesbians walking habits. It's absurd on its face. How did they even select the 4 gays and lesbians? Did they sign-up from an ad? Were they chosen by friends of friends?

Anyone involved in any research would say this was flawed from the start.

Who paid for this?

[quote] All of this based on FOUR gay men at UCLA in 2006/2007

Did they conduct this study on the second floor of Royce Hall?

(wink, wink)

This study sounds swishy, I mean, fishy.

[quote] I mean, fishy.

Do you refer to the lesbians?

Gay men can be swishy. I'll alert the media.

So if you’re bi, do you just appear and act ambiguous?

My gaydar is the worst. I've found myself in awkward situations because of it. Or maybe they just weren't into me.

Stealth Matt Damon thread

Maybe we need to stop obsessing about gays being different and somehow biologically distinct and differentz

How about you just accept our word for it?

[quote]Researchers “measured the hips, waists and shoulders of eight male and eight female volunteers, half of whom were gay and half straight”

8 people of each sex. Anyone who takes this study seriously is an idiot.

[Quote] That body type does not describe me.

WE KNOW

Straight guys are made up of squares: square head, shoulders and hips.

[quote] Stealth Matt Damon thread

Explain please.

Some researchers (and people in general) are obsessed with finding physical, biologically based and visibly identifiable differences between straight and non-straight people because they do not want to accept the fact that sexuality is on a spectrum and like almost all of the population they (at least occasionally) feel attraction to their same sex too.

I've never felt the least sexual attraction to a woman.

A 2007 study of 8 participants? Get fucked.

^^^ I meant 8 male & 8 female. Same absurd conclusion. Who funded this study ? Pat Robertson?

I ain't never seen a sidewalk that I didn't instantly turn into my own personal runway.

I was taught by Belle at Mel's Diner to make my hips move like the waves of the ocean, uh-huh.

Do bisexuals and asexuals just adapt to their surrounding environment like an osmosis thing?

These weirdo studies always sound like high school research assignments turned in by Weston and Virgil from Kids in the Hall.