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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 study sexual orientation is in the eyes. The study, published in Live Science, suggests that pupil dilation can indicate someone’s level of arousal depending on which gender they’re eyeing up.
The study finds that homosexual men who are attracted to other men trial a dilation of pupils when looking at erotic images of the alike 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 study 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 tells Live Science. “And the opposite with gay men, their eyes are dilating to men.”
The resear
I knew Jake* would leave me from the very first time we kissed.
We sat on my bed to the soundtrack of Brooklyn at midnight – a mix between the bass drums of the subway and the melodic humming of taxi cabs that whizzed by. His calloused fingers intertwined with my own, our hearts beating as quickly as cicada wings fluttering in the summer haze, we connected, appreciate old lovers who reunited after a century apart. Or at least, that’s how I imagined it.
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By: Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Scribe
Published: 08/03/2012 05:41 PM EDT on LiveScience
Whether you're same-sex attracted, 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 learning finds. When people look at erotic images and become aroused, their pupils open up in an unconscious reaction that could be used to study orientation and arousal without invasive genital measurements.
The new study is first large-scale experiment to demonstrate 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 acquire 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 Belladona, which kept their pupils from constricting and was thought to bestow a seductive look.
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Aug. 6, 2012— -- They say the eyes are window to the soul, and now scientists tell the pupils can also reveal a person's sexual orientation.
For the first age, 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 measures the changes in pupil size."
The Cornell scientists had 325 subjects -- 165 men a