Why do homosexuals lisp

Results showed that in 63 percent of the cases, the listeners correctly identified the sexual orientation of the speakers. While the study may have proven the existence between speech mannerisms and sexual orientation, it failed to show where this link came from.

Instead, the researchers hypothesized that some gay men may simply subconsciously adopt certain female speech patterns. She goes on to compare this to individuals who may switch from ebonics to standard English, depending on their company. Bryan Lowder, a self-identifying gay man, attempted to take a crack at this mystery from a more personal perspective. Years of research suggest that vision, lung function, immune system performance, and even sperm count can all be improved by omega-3s.

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Still, this leaves us with the central question. But Cecil confesses that when someone speaks, for example, in a nasal, highly inflected, somewhat theatrical tone of voice, the thought crosses his mind. I am a gay man who no one would suspect is gay. The theory that you can tell a gay man by sight is incorrect; you can tell that a swishy man is probably gay but the converse every gay man is swishy is not true.

Are gay mannerisms a way of advertising your sexual orientation to other gays, as straights might suppose? There is a certain amount of time that men will look at each other before the social taboos kick in and ya sorta force yourself to look away.

Gay men break that taboo and look at each other for longer. So what does explain gay mannerisms, such as they are? Some features on this site require registration. Please click here to register for free. Hello and thank you for registering. Please complete the process by verifying your email address. If you can't find the email you can resend it here. Some features on this site require a subscription. When Richard Bright testified before Congress the other day, someone posted that he noticed Bright's lisp and questioned if he was gay.

But is a lisp the dog whistle of gayness or am I reading too much into it? General Jim Mattis has a profound 'lateral lisp' and has been rumored to be gay. No evidence, though.

I thought he might be gay as soon I heard him speak. He also had rather form fitting pants. His family that accompanied him seemed to be a balding man and a teen boy. Anyone have any more details? Google doesn't turn up anything. The guy is sharp and excellent with his facts and didn't get to his position without being highly qualified. In females, a lisp is considered 'baby talk' and women sometimes affect a lisp to be cute.

It's a whole different deal with men. They either have to work with a speech therapist to lose it or wear it as part of who they are. R12 is right. That's part of the reason for the gay association, because a lisp is considered feminine. I didn't assume Bright was gay because of the lisp, it was his mannerisms that seemed really gay.

R1 is correct, except that it's not only gay men that have a lisp as part of their cluster. Lesbians and bisexuals of both genders have natural lisps as well. Most seek corrective speech therapy, or are offered the service free of charge.

Most of the men I've known with a lisp weren't gay. Plenty of straight guys lisp - look at Humphrey Bogart. R31 So Mike is straight and only rapes women? R28 and R30 claim he's bisexual so maybe he also rapes men? Has there been a scientific correlation between a lisp and attraction to men.

Like is a lisp a result of gay brain, or do guys with lisps act more feminine. Are does having a lisp make one more ostracized and as result end up gay.