6 Intimate Details You Can Tell Just By Looking At Someone
How much would you pay to be able to read another person's mind? As superpowers go, it's a hell of a lot more of a game changer than, say, flight. Your career, your relationships -- everything would change.
But experts say you can gather a whole bunch of intimate details about a person just by looking at them. No, it's not 100 percent accurate, and it's not magic. It's just science.
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Remember back in high school when you were talking to that cute girl you really liked, but you couldn't tell if she liked you back, and your fear of rejection prevented you from expressing your feelings in any way apart from night after night of tearful masturbation? Remember when you did the same thing last week? Wouldn't asking someone out be so much easier if you knew how they'd answer before you asked them?
Science to the rescue!
How? Tell Me!
Experts will tell you it's all in the body language, but you know better. People -- and especially women -- are really, really good at feigning disinterest. Anything short of the woman outright grabbing your junk will be lost on most guys.
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"I realized she was into me right around the time we started having sex."
But watch her feet.
Apparently, people aren't as conscious of their foot movements as they are of other parts of their body, and so their feet can unconsciously send messages about themselves. They did a study at the University of Manchester on this, studying subjects' foot movements in various social situations.
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The angle of her heels says "I put out," but those knees say "not for you."
Specifically, they found if a woman moves her feet apart to adopt a more open-legged stance, it generally means that she's into you. However, if she finds you utterly repulsive, she will likely cross her legs or keep them tucked underneath her body. We'll, uh, let you figure out the symbolic meaning of those gestures.
And while we're on the subject ...
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Of course, all of our male readers are already virtual experts on the subject of female sexuality. But for the rare, sheltered fan who isn't, we need to explain something about the female orgasm. When it comes to climaxing, ladies can do it two ways: from the inside or from the outside. The inside orgasm comes from the G-spot, and is super easy to achieve if her partner's penis is shaped like a letter "J." Most women, however, climax from the outside, or clitoral stimulation.
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Some women require more ... elaborate measures to achieve orgasm.
If for some reason you are curious to know whether, say, the lady who delivers your mail has regular vaginal orgasms, there's an easy way to tell.
How? Tell Me!
By the way she walks. Not joking.
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Rascal-bound women remain as damnably incomprehensible as ever.
A group of sexologists (which is apparently a thing) from the Universite Catholique de Louvain in Belgium studied the connection between the way a woman walks and her vaginal orgasm history. What else did you think sexologists studied?
They gathered a group of women -- half had never had vaginal orgasms, half had. And then, we shit you not, the scientists had to guess which group each lady fell into by the way she sashayed her stuff across the room.
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"I don't know about you Dr. Stodgson, but I suddenly feel like this might be the most important study we've ever conducted."
And here was the kicker: It worked. The sexologists could determine whether or not the woman in question could have a vaginal orgasm with freaking 81.25 percent accuracy.
Now, we caution you against trying this if you're not a trained sexologist yourself -- we're not responsible for any injuries or incorrect conclusions drawn. But the experts say women who were climaxing from the inside had longer stride lengths, greater pelvic rotation and an "absence of both flaccid and locked muscles." In other words, they had a little shake in their hips, a little pep in their stride and didn't look like they were clenching a tennis ball with their thigh muscles. A loose but confident walk. Now you know, and you'll never, never un-know.
We're so sorry.
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"Loosey goosey, babycakes."

Granted, most of the time you know somebody's political leanings because they will goddamn tell you. But not everybody broadcasts their beliefs via shouted slogans and bumper stickers.
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Some of us prefer to start loud political arguments in the middle of crowded restaurants.
Fortunately, it turns out that there are subtle clues that indicate if a person is liberal or conservative -- you just have to know what to look for.
How? Tell Me!
And by "look" we literally mean "look," because eye contact is actually a great indicator of political beliefs.
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The enlarged cornea means this person is extremely concerned with the deficit.
Researchers have found that during conversations, left-leaning people were more likely to follow the other person's "eye cues" than conservatives. Let's say you are having a conversation with someone and you suddenly take your gaze off them to look at something slightly to the right, say a cute person or a passing zebra. Liberals are more likely to follow your gaze and look as well, even if what you are looking at has no bearing on the conversation. If you look away again, they will follow your gaze again, and so on and so on, like two little puppies distracted by shiny passing balloons.
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Statistically speaking, about half of you just glanced up at the ceiling.
Conservatives are almost never going to follow your gaze, but will continue looking straight at you, like robots. Those conducting the study speculated that conservatives held their gaze because, no lie, they don't like being told what to do.
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"I reflexively reject the opinions of others and I have no idea why."








The problem with the hair whorl thing is that its statistical reasoning is backwards. Even if we assume that the same ratio held for the general populations of gay and straight men as was reported in the statistics, we would still expect 75% of the counterclockwise whorl men to be straight. This is because only 10% of the male population is gay, and so even with the trait being three times more prevalent amongst them, the number of straight men with the counterclockwise whorl is still much greater than the number of gay men with it. So straight men would make up 75% of the total number of counterclockwise whorls, and gay men only 25%, despite the trait being more prevalent amongst gays.
Replydude... I forgot about this one. i'm doing my thesis on homosexuality, handedness and hair whorls. I have a counterclockwise whorl, but i am neither gay nor left handed.
ReplyI know this Islamic fundamentalist (no not our pet troll, a real one; that's one benefit of living in a Muslim country), with whom I all too often end up having "conversations." So you'd think based on his political views, he'd keep his eyes on me. But whenever my eyes move to look at a hot chick, he'll follow them, even turning his head to see what I'm looking at. Either he hasn't learned that it's the same thing every time, or he has, and has just decided that I have good taste in women.
Replywell my ring and pointer finger are the same length... and im gay..so i guess some of us are exceptions?? lol
ReplyActually, no. The article said if your ring and pointer finger are the same length, that is the indicator that you ARE likely to be gay....if that is really your photo though, it is a shame you are gay....damn! That said, my pointer finger and ring finger on my left hand are the same length, but on my right hand, my ring finger is noticeably longer than my pointer....Not sure what that means, but I am a bit of a freak generally, so I guess it is an indicator of freakiness, at least, that sounds good to me....but I don't really know.
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On my right hand, my index finger is longer than my ring finger, but on my left hand the ring finger is longer. I'm right-handed. So this means I must be one-third lesbian.
ReplyI have the same thing, but on the opposite hands....I'm a guy...and I'm no good at maths, so you might have to help interpret that one for me, if you can...does it make me 1/3rd gay or 2/3rds or some other ratio?
So it's going to take a lot of booze to get Soren Bowie drunk...
ReplyAwesome example of coincidence. Coincidence is not Causality. And when giving advice to romantics looking for love, they only need one. Not 50% or even 90%. Be a believer, trust instincts and follow your heart!
ReplyIf I'm going to bang her. And I'm 100% so far. I freaking started against myself. (what kind of dumbass bookie takes that bet.) So then I just hired a whore.
ReplyTake all of these with a grain of salt.
Reply"No, it's not 100 percent accurate, and it's not magic." -The fifth sentence of the article you just read.
Blue eyed people are Europeans. Europeans and Asians have had access to alcohol longer than any other ethnicity, therefore have developed a greater tolerance for alcohol. So since we see blue eyed people the reason they can hold more alcohol is because they were exposed to it before Africans, Hispanics, and Native Americans. We also see that Native Americans people who are the most recent ethnic group to start drink alcohol have greater problems with it. So since white people in general have had alcohol longer than anyone else they can hold their liquor better. Also not a lot of Africans, Hispanics, or Native Americans have blue eyes.
ReplyDidn't alcohol--fermenting of grains--start in Egypt/Summeria/basically not-Europe. Sure, you can throw in the "alcohol industries" started in the European countries, but so did every industry. Do Brits have a higher caffeine tolerance than, say, Ethiopians--where coffee came from? I find your jumps to conclusions interesting, but that is certainly not the reason why. If so, they wouldn't have bothered with that melanin shit--you know, actual science--versus just sociology/evo psych or whatever other crummy science you are trying to assert.
You've contradicted yourself in your own argument *sigh* But, also, completely ignored the point of the article. And how does your argument explain the fact that the men that were tested were all white? This wasn't them comparing Europeans to Native Americans, this was them comparing people of European descent to each other. Unless you're under the impression that there's no such thing as a brown eyed European and they're all secretly mixed race or some such thing (in which case, my mother's family was apparently getting up to some scandalous things back in the day lol)?
This sounds like something you would read in a Cosmo magazine.
Reply"If he breathes, he's cheating"
"If he's happy eating, he's cheating"
If Cosmo would have posted the same information, Cracked would have called them out for being crazy.
This is the exact opposite. All of this is based off of science. All of Cosmo is based off of the crazed depraved fantasies of undersexed middle aged women
This stuff may be 'based off of science' but that is hardly the same thing as reliable information. Look at some of the percentages they mention in the article.
How do you get 23% of 50 people? Did eleven and half have hetero hair?
Reply#3 - Is 23 percent really enough to prove that you're on to something? I kind of think any time you gather 50 men, all of who have one thing in common, a good percentage of them will have something ELSE in common too.
ReplyI am blue eyed and live in Japan, and in general I can out-drink my Asian friends. I have also never gotten alcohol poisoning and I rarely vomit even after big parties. Buuut the medicine here has almost no effect on me... I have to import a lot of American meds and go to American doctors or routine check-ups anytime I go visit family. I heard there is a lower tolerance with medication and Asians, which is why when my husband drinks Nyquill it knocks him out for a full 15 hours. Maybe my blue eyes give me medical super powers as well?
ReplyI hear that. I can drink as much alcohol as I want it seems, and mix it however I like, and the next morning after even 3 hours of sleep, I'm fresh as a daisy. Yeah excessive comma splicing!
Also, it takes me a handfull of painkillers to get any relief.
recognizing Subtle signs is not one mens strongest points. I am not saying women should grab guys junk. But they could definitely throw out easier to pick up signs that they like you. Rejection sucks for both.
ReplyNo, they SHOULD grab our junk. Often.
I have a bald spot on the top of my head...does this mean NO ONE will sex me?!
ReplyYour comment has made my day, good sir.
so liberals are nice people persons (dose that even make sence?) and conservatives are souless robots hell bent on takeing over the world...
ReplyHOLY f**k ITS ALREADY HAPPEND!!!!!
I'm a female whose ring finger is longer than her index finger. I guess that must mean I'm a lesbian.
ReplyWell it depends on where you stick those finger. ZING!
So....I am a poor liberal who displays behaviours of a rich conservative. Nifty. So basically.... I am opinionated and disinterested in others...
Reply"opinionated and disinterested in others" or to put it simple: a douchebag.
Uninterested. If you were disinterested then you'd be neither a conservative or a liberal.
Actually, this is really helpful. Thanks! Especially the whole "telling if a girl likes you because of her feet".
ReplyI tested that out on myself; lo and behold, my feet do point his way when we talk!