What is the color of your father’s eyes? A new study suggests the answer may hold the key to what attracts gay men to one another: yes, their eye color.
The “Positive Sexual Imprinting For Human Eye Color” study, conducted by the University of Glasgow, suggests gay men are twice as likely to be shacked up with somebody who has the same eye color as their dad.
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This study meticulously studied the links between significant others and parents, delving into sexual attraction by apply the “sexual imprinting” theory, which wagers that humans pick physical characteristics in their mates that share commonalities with their parents.
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More than 300 men and women were surveyed and asked to reveal the eye color of parents and partners alike. Those eye colors were then split into two categories: Light (grey, blue, green) or Dark (light brown, dark brown, and black.)
The data suggests a trend in which the eye color of someone’s same-sex partner can be predicted by the eye color of the parent of that same sex.
Basically, the research suggests gay men will be more attracted to guys who have the same eye color as their dad, and lesbians will be into women who share their mom’s eye color.
Researchers say their research found“clear evidence against the sex-linked heritable preferences hypothesis, which predicts a relationship between partner’s eye color and other-sex parent’s eye color.
“Our data give clearest support to the positive sexual imprinting hypothesis, where we found that partner’s eye color was predicted by maternal eye color for people with female partners and by paternal eye color for people with male partners.”
Howard Roark
Whenever an article starts with the words, “Studies suggest…..”, you know it is a load of rubbish.
Juanjo
Have you read the study in the link? I thought not. Your comment is a load of rubbish.
dgsea06
Absolutely! and, not meaning to be cynical, but likely there’s an ulterior motive to the report if not the “study”. Further, What the hell does this have to do with anything?
I thank QUEERTY for showing us this but, again, it’s a SO WHAT?
Knight
Agreed. Queerty is great for passing the time between flights at airports, but not my go-to source for science.
Prax07
Don’t recall the color of my father’s eyes, he passed away in 2006. I do have a preference for green eyes though, and dislike blue. My own are hazel.
Kieru
> More than 300 men and women were surveyed and asked to reveal the eye color of parents and partners alike.
Something something sample size… The PDF linked to in this article suggests the data is a simulation based on 300 datasets; 75 female->male, 75 male->female, 75 female->female, and 75 male->male.
I’m not going to put too much faith in a study that purports to draw a clear connection based on the self-reported data of 75 people in my represented group.
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
I really don’t have a preference and science can not prove otherwise. All eye colours are potentially beautiful but shape, for me, is THE deciding factor — almond shaped with thick dark lashes and thick brows preferably
Josh447
Yum
jd.cali
What are the numbers of this “study”?
I keep seeing these studies based on very little responders and in this case, a r after needs to pause since there are no numbers (results) shown. And since there are very few eye colors to choose from, it’s like flipping a coin.
Heywood Jablowme
Do they count “bloodshot” as an eye color? lol
Mack
I too don’t remember my father’s eye color since he passed away so many years ago, but at the same time I couldn’t even tell you my ex lover’s eye coloring either. I think this is just another study grasping at straws.
Heywood Jablowme
This is one of those “studies” that might work with millennials, because gay millennial guys are all so in lo-o-o-o-ove with their fathers.
dgsea06
Hey, Heywood! High-flightin’ fun comments! “Bloodshot” was eschwed because Scotch whiskey took them by surprise. It is, not, however the color of the retina (The Iris?), it’s the whole thing! And it hurts! OW!
A Bloody Mary (or three) and an oyster frittata cures all (most) ills. And if a guy with bloodshot eyes looks as good in the morning as he did last night-Go For Him.
One other thing, the gay milleniees are looking for a “Daddy”, Y’know, as in Sugar? Not necessarily for a “Father”.
Alan down in Florida
I couldn’t tell you my late father’s eye color if you paid me, I have absolutely no idea. Substantively, I can see a case being made for attraction by eye color but the falling in love portion is a loooong stretch of the imagination.
NateOcean
OK, I haven’t read the article, but I’ll guess that the one characteristic that their father had, that gay men seek in their partner, is: penis.
Am I right?
Horse Lips
That too.
Horse Lips
My dad had green eyes like me, but when I see an attractive guy, I rarely even notice the color of his eyes
Paco
My sperm donor had brown eyes and I tend to prefer brown eyes. The majority of humans have brown eyes, so I wonder how that impacts this study or my eye color preference in other men.
Jack Meoff
So does this mean that if I fancy a guy I should find out what colour his fathers eye are and wear coloured contacts of the same colour to make his attracted to me? Bloody stupid article.
Knight
Stupid. Baseless. Pseudo-science. It’s only “right” when it’s right…
PretenderNX01
Eh, my dad has blue eyes like I do but I love guys with brown eyes.
Haven’t had a boyfriend in a bit but my last one had brown eyes and so do most of my celebrity crushes :p
silveroracle
My late father had brown eyes and so did my ex-partner.
I tend to go for guys with blue eyes but that’s not a deciding factor.
The personality is what I look at.
GayEGO
Well, maybe some gay guys do but….my father who was born in Sweden had what they call green eyes, and my husband has brown eyes. We have been together for 55 years, married 13 years in Massachusetts. I also read a suggestion that a guy who had older brothers was likely to be gay, but I had two older sisters so I guess my gayness is just because I was born that way! By the way, I have blue eyes!
KMK
Funny, actually my partner and I have the eye colors of each of our mother’s – NOT our fathers. I think that there is some truth to this idea from our perspective – I mean- it is our mother’s who teach us how to love.