In fact, the authors had a rather elaborate selection procedure for choosing the target photos in this follow-up study. This way, the targets hadn't so obviously selected photos of themselves meant to attract prospective sexual partners. In this second study, the authors used images from the social networking site Facebook rather than online dating Web sites.
Wary of these possible criticisms, Rule and Ambady conducted a second experiment that controlled for such extraneous variables as self-presentation and hairstyle. Or maybe hairstyles are suggestive of sexual orientation. In other words, perhaps it's not the target's face per se that signals his sexual orientation, but the way he expresses himself facially when trying to attract a member of the same or the opposite gender. Even more surprisingly, accuracy rate was just as good when the images were exposed at a rapid rate of only 50 milliseconds, which offered participants no opportunity to consciously process the photo.Ī parsimonious explanation for these findings would be that the countenance of these photos-an online dating site-means that they're likely stereotypical in some way. Surprisingly, all participants (both men and women) scored above chance on this gaydar task, correctly identifying the gay faces. These 90 faces were then shown to 90 participants in random order, who were asked simply to judge the target's "probable sexual orientation" (gay or straight) by pressing a button. To control for context, the faces were also cut and pasted onto a white background for the study. All of these photos were matched for orientation (only faces shown looking forward were used) and facial alterations (none of the images contained jewelry, glasses or facial hair). In an initial experiment, researchers Nicholas Rule and Nalini Ambady from Tufts University perused online dating sites and carefully selected 45 straight male faces and 45 gay male faces. The January 2008 study investigated people's ability to identify homosexual men from pictures of their faces alone. Findings from a recent study published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, however, suggest I may be underestimating my gaydar abilities. Apparently it has been attributed to several artists prone to wild hair and/or putting dicks in their mouths, including: Elton John, David Bowie, Marc Almond, Mick Jagger, Andy Warhol, Jeff Beck, Jon Bon Jovi, the "lead singer" of New Kids on the Block (Jordan? Joey?), the Bay City Rollers, Alanis Morisseette, Lil' Kim, Foxy Brown, Britney Spears and Fiona Apple.Although I've always wanted this particular superhuman power, I've never been very good at detecting other men's sexual orientation.
If his belly wasn't ever full of cum, at least his regard of this legend-defining falsity is full of humor.įor added fun, check out Snopes' page on this rumor. Say what you like about Tony Toon-and God rest his soul-but he was good at his job." With minor variations.this story has stayed with me ever since. And I have never had my stomach pumped, either of naval-issue semen or of any other kind of semen. He fed the press a story in which, as a consequence of an evening spent orally servicing a gang of sailors in a gay bar in San Diego, I had been required to check into a hospital emergency room to have my stomach pumped.I have never orally pleasured even a solitary sailor, let alone a ship's worth in one evening. "Toon, of course, couldn't resist pulling some bloke in the bar that evening and taking him back to the room. The hotel was overbooked, so Toon and Alana's son Ashley, who was 7, shared a room. They went on vacation in Hawaii, and Toon came along. Quotes the Daily Beast:īy 1982, Stewart was married to actress Alana Hamilton, ex-wife of actor George Hamilton. In it, he goes further into the seamen semen story. Stewart is talking about this because he released his memoir this week, Rod: The Autobiography.
Wasn't everyone at least a little bit gay in the ‘70s? "I'm as heterosexual as the come," explained Stewart, but I smell a popper. Stewart denied it and can even point to the source: a scorned publicist named Tony Toon.
What a lightweight.ĭespite what he claims, it's become such an accepted part of his bio that the seemingly straight-laced, Talbots-wearing ladies who filled the chairs of Katie Couric's talk show stage giddily screamed, "FACT!!!" when Couric asked him about it during a recent game of Fact of Fiction. The rumor goes that he sucked off (and swallowed) so many sailors in a gay bar in San Diego that he landed in the hospital and needed to have his stomach pumped. For decades, Rod Stewart's name has been synonymous with ingesting quarts of cum.