Comments on: laterality ‘sidedness’ http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/03/06/laterality-sidedness/ A blog mostly about language Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:11:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: arnold zwicky http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/03/06/laterality-sidedness/#comment-16290 Tue, 06 Mar 2012 19:03:15 +0000 http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/?p=9186#comment-16290 A topic I’ve thought about pursuing for some time is handedness in gay porn. I know from real-life experience that men have strong handedness preferences in masturbation, and that are not strongly correlated with hand preferences for other things. Gay porn offers a lot of evidence of jack-off styles, which could (in principle) be compared to hand preferences for other things.

Or, of course, I could interview men. After getting Human Subjects permission.

]]> By: maxvasilatos http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/03/06/laterality-sidedness/#comment-16289 Tue, 06 Mar 2012 18:50:06 +0000 http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/?p=9186#comment-16289 I was looking up laterality because I noticed a lot of TV actors seem to be left-handed but that could just be because being unusual makes me notice it. Then I was watching some martial arts (choreographed) fighting, and noticed that individuals favor one kicking leg, as does Lady Gaga in her dancing. Which led me to wonder if that is related to handedness and if leggedness matches or is perhaps opposite handedness, and then I might predict the handedness of the fighters. To some extent apparently I can.

It struck me as odd that there would be more information on parrots’ and mastodons’ laterality than on, say, apes.

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