QC FYI: Gay Men Recognize Faces Better Than Straight Dudes

Ever wonder why you’re able to recognize your favorite porn stars lightning quick? Have you ever seen a hot guy from clear across a crowded bar and been able to find his face easily for the rest of the night just by looking around? You’re not just a horn-ball—gay men naturally have a knack for scanning and recalling people’s faces.
It’s true. York University researchers asked a bunch of men and women from across the sexual spectrum to “memorize photographs of ten faces, and differentiate them from 50 others, shown to them for only milliseconds each. The images were rendered in black and white and edited to remove ears, hair and blemishes, which can serve as obvious identifying cues. Participants then had to relay which faces were new, as quickly and accurately as possible.”
According to researchers, both gay men and women were able to quickly recognize the 10 faces most quickly because they use both sides of their brain whereas straight men tend to favor the right hemisphere of their brain. They also found that left-handed straight guys recognized faces more quickly than left-handed gay guys. What does this mean? Namely that the brains of gay are developmentally superior different from straight men and that people who use both sides of their brain more likely to scope out hot folks faster. Of course, hot gay men are a lot easier to recognize when they have “dancer face.”
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