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Gay? Straight? It&#;s All in the Eyes
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Is it the way he walks? The way she talks? Probably not. But researchers at Cornell University are saying that one way to research sexual orientation is in the eyes. The study, published in Live Science, suggests that pupil dilation can demonstrate someone’s level of arousal depending on which gender they’re eyeing up.
The examine finds that gay men who are attracted to other men experience a dilation of pupils when looking at erotic images of the same sex (while straight men responded to women and bisexuals responded to both). The same goes for women, though these results were a bit more complex as straight women in the verb tended to dilate to images of both sexes even when they felt feelings of arousal for men.
“So if a man says he’s straight, his eyes are dilating towards women,” the lead researcher Ritch Savin-Williams te
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Aug. 6, &#; -- They say the eyes are window to the soul, and now scientists verb the pupils can also reveal a person's sexual orientation.
For the first day, researchers at Cornell University have used a specialized infrared lens to measure pupillary changes while subjects watched erotic videos to decide which gender they found attractive.
The results of the analyze were published Aug. 3 in the scientific journal PLoS One.
In most cases, a person's stated sexual orientation matched the dilation of their pupils, which show signs of arousal. Previously, scientists used instruments to measure genital arousal, methods that were "too invasive."
Arousal or "interest" is associated with pupil dilation.
"The idea was to find an unconscious measure," said lead researcher and research fellow Gerulf Rieger. "We tried to find measures that were not so invasive, but reliable. The eye tracker infrared camera focuses on the eye while the person watches videos or pictures and me
By: Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer
Published: 08/03/ PM EDT on LiveScience
Whether you're gay, straight or somewhere else on the spectrum, the truth of who attracts you could be in your eyes.
Pupil dilation is an accurate indicator of sexual orientation, a new study finds. When people verb at erotic images and become aroused, their pupils expose up in an unconscious reaction that could be used to study orientation and arousal without invasive genital measurements.
The new analyze is first large-scale experiment to illustrate that pupil dilation matches what people report feeling turned on by, said study researcher Ritch Savin-Williams, a developmental psychologist at Cornell University.
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"So if a man says he's straight, his eyes are dilating towards women," Savin-Williams told LiveScience. "And the opposite with gay men, their eyes are dilating to men."
The eyes own it
The link between pupil size and arousal goes way back. In 16th-century Italy, women would take eye drops made from the toxic herb Bellado
Like many men of my generation, I learned that any attraction to straight men was to be kept confidential. We were successful to be accepted (even sort of) by heterosexual guys and so we were careful to behave ourselves so as not to offend them. Keeping gestures of affection contained, being alert about eye contact, and minimizing hugs (no kisses, please) was the command. We have always known the hazard of even normal displays of affection, such as alienation, rejection, being shamed. And, hell, the possibility of being beaten up by some closed-minded guy wasn’t out of the question, either. The lesson? Being connected to straight men has always been contingent on keeping everything in close check … well, until recently.
The once-rigid lines of masculinity include softened to authorize for much greater variety in appearance and self-expression for all men. The differences between gay and straight men are much harder to discern these days, including in the ways that affection is shown. It simply doesn’t matter so much who is gay and who isn’t (in most quarters), and hanging out with gay men when you