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I have never heard of this gay-hanky code. It's interesting because it's a whole separate culture, like a secret code, that I would never recognize or be able to understand. Now that I know about it I am going to look for such handkerchiefs, even though I don't frequent gay-only establishments, I am sure they can be found worn openly in public. It's funny how I am such an outsider in the gay culture, i guess, but I still wonder how people go about starting such symbols as these.
This gay-hanky code is hilarious. I could not stop laughing. How can gay men remember all the colors and which side means what? Who thought this up? For some reason, when i think of this, I start thinking of men gathering in a room and someone passing out pamphlets and explaining the rules and how to approach someone about their hanky, this is amazing!!!
it says that the gay-hanky code is more a thing of the past and isn't really done anymore. i wonder when it was really big then? Its really interesting to think that there is a whole underground communication thing going on right in front of most people and not even notice it. I agree with the people below me in saying that how is it that people remember all of these symbols and colors for meaning different things? i could ever remember all of it.
Lets hear it for differential association theory in action! Those of us outsiders would have no idea what all those hanky codes mean, so there's a good example you can use to illustrate that concept.
I just find it interesting that A) There are so many varieties of hankys one can buy, and B) How much effort it must take to memorize them all. I bet a lot of new people on the scene use cheat sheets though!
The gay hanky code is pretty funny but I wonder if swinger groups use similar identifying objects to express their interests and what they are willing to do. Are there hanky codes for if you have crabs or genital warts? I would hope so because that is something people would definitely want to find out before they started doing the hanky panky with a stranger wearing many different colored handkerchiefs. It is crazy how many different subcultures have formed and exist without many people ever hearing about them. Should deviance be labeled as the same thing in society as it is in these ever popular subcultures. I don't think so but it is definitely open for debate. -Eric Spaulding
i look at this sex grid and realize that there are just way too many fetishes out there. if you name an object or pretty much anything, it can be turned into a fetish. one thing will lead to another and next thing you know your dressed up as a furry animal having fur-relations.
I have never heard of these gay codes before. I think its interesting to know that other people have a differnt way of communicating. I do wonder who and how they came up with codes. There are so many codes, i wonder how a person can know which one means what. This is very interesting and i wonder what else is out there. T.Elia
I have never heard of these gay codes before. I think its interesting to know that other people have a differnt way of communicating. I do wonder who and how they came up with codes. There are so many codes, i wonder how a person can know which one means what. This is very interesting and i wonder what else is out there. T.Elia
I have never heard of these gay codes before. I think its interesting to know that other people have a differnt way of communicating. I do wonder who and how they came up with codes. There are so many codes, i wonder how a person can know which one means what. This is very interesting and i wonder what else is out there. T.Elia
I do not know how widely used this gay hanky code is. I asked my suitemates about this since they are gay and they had never heard of such things. But after I told them the scarves they were wearing could mean certain things they did change the colors. I am not sure I could ever memorize all the colors, but in reality you wouldn’t need to. You would simply need to know what you were into and the corresponding colors. 2-handed fisters use dark red hankies so they would not need to know that the Holstein color means he’s the milkee. This is interesting and reminds me of when girls wore different colored “sex” bracelets that meant if a certain color bracelet broke they would have to perform a different type of sex act from kissing to oral sex all the way up to breaking a black bracelet and having sex not exactly the same but those bracelets appeared to mean nothing just like the hankies. -Robert S.
Wow, I got lost at the 3rd shade of blue! I guess the gay-hanky code is something I would have never been aware of... although I must say that I remember in my high school days that students who considered themselves to be gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, etc., would wear different colored bracelets (sort of like the gay-hankies). I just thought it was a fashion statement (that goes to sure that society is full of cultural coding).
I feel reasonably confident that listing of the gay handkerchief code might overestimate the depth of the system, if it is even used much anymore. Being gay does not suddenly make you a wild sexual deviant, and the vast majority of gay people probably don't engage in a tenth of the behavior listed there. Also, if you were inclined to walk on the wild side, even if you were in a gay bar I have to suspect you might feel uncomfortable communicating to others openly the darkest depths of your sexual activity. This is all ignoring the fact that a lot of those colors are very, very similar. I can only begin to imagine the sort of conversations that would rise up from misreading shades of teal.
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I have never heard of this gay-hanky code. It's interesting because it's a whole separate culture, like a secret code, that I would never recognize or be able to understand. Now that I know about it I am going to look for such handkerchiefs, even though I don't frequent gay-only establishments, I am sure they can be found worn openly in public. It's funny how I am such an outsider in the gay culture, i guess, but I still wonder how people go about starting such symbols as these.
Christina D.
This gay-hanky code is hilarious. I could not stop laughing. How can gay men remember all the colors and which side means what? Who thought this up? For some reason, when i think of this, I start thinking of men gathering in a room and someone passing out pamphlets and explaining the rules and how to approach someone about their hanky, this is amazing!!!
I agree about the gay hankies... I would never remember all that. I guess you'd only pay attention to those you'd be interested in. That's nuts!
it says that the gay-hanky code is more a thing of the past and isn't really done anymore. i wonder when it was really big then? Its really interesting to think that there is a whole underground communication thing going on right in front of most people and not even notice it. I agree with the people below me in saying that how is it that people remember all of these symbols and colors for meaning different things? i could ever remember all of it.
Lets hear it for differential association theory in action! Those of us outsiders would have no idea what all those hanky codes mean, so there's a good example you can use to illustrate that concept.
I just find it interesting that A) There are so many varieties of hankys one can buy, and B) How much effort it must take to memorize them all. I bet a lot of new people on the scene use cheat sheets though!
The gay hanky code is pretty funny but I wonder if swinger groups use similar identifying objects to express their interests and what they are willing to do. Are there hanky codes for if you have crabs or genital warts? I would hope so because that is something people would definitely want to find out before they started doing the hanky panky with a stranger wearing many different colored handkerchiefs. It is crazy how many different subcultures have formed and exist without many people ever hearing about them. Should deviance be labeled as the same thing in society as it is in these ever popular subcultures. I don't think so but it is definitely open for debate.
-Eric Spaulding
i look at this sex grid and realize that there are just way too many fetishes out there. if you name an object or pretty much anything, it can be turned into a fetish. one thing will lead to another and next thing you know your dressed up as a furry animal having fur-relations.
I have never heard of these gay codes before. I think its interesting to know that other people have a differnt way of communicating. I do wonder who and how they came up with codes. There are so many codes, i wonder how a person can know which one means what. This is very interesting and i wonder what else is out there.
T.Elia
I have never heard of these gay codes before. I think its interesting to know that other people have a differnt way of communicating. I do wonder who and how they came up with codes. There are so many codes, i wonder how a person can know which one means what. This is very interesting and i wonder what else is out there.
T.Elia
I have never heard of these gay codes before. I think its interesting to know that other people have a differnt way of communicating. I do wonder who and how they came up with codes. There are so many codes, i wonder how a person can know which one means what. This is very interesting and i wonder what else is out there.
T.Elia
I do not know how widely used this gay hanky code is. I asked my suitemates about this since they are gay and they had never heard of such things. But after I told them the scarves they were wearing could mean certain things they did change the colors. I am not sure I could ever memorize all the colors, but in reality you wouldn’t need to. You would simply need to know what you were into and the corresponding colors. 2-handed fisters use dark red hankies so they would not need to know that the Holstein color means he’s the milkee. This is interesting and reminds me of when girls wore different colored “sex” bracelets that meant if a certain color bracelet broke they would have to perform a different type of sex act from kissing to oral sex all the way up to breaking a black bracelet and having sex not exactly the same but those bracelets appeared to mean nothing just like the hankies.
-Robert S.
Wow, I got lost at the 3rd shade of blue! I guess the gay-hanky code is something I would have never been aware of... although I must say that I remember in my high school days that students who considered themselves to be gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, etc., would wear different colored bracelets (sort of like the gay-hankies). I just thought it was a fashion statement (that goes to sure that society is full of cultural coding).
I feel reasonably confident that listing of the gay handkerchief code might overestimate the depth of the system, if it is even used much anymore. Being gay does not suddenly make you a wild sexual deviant, and the vast majority of gay people probably don't engage in a tenth of the behavior listed there. Also, if you were inclined to walk on the wild side, even if you were in a gay bar I have to suspect you might feel uncomfortable communicating to others openly the darkest depths of your sexual activity. This is all ignoring the fact that a lot of those colors are very, very similar. I can only begin to imagine the sort of conversations that would rise up from misreading shades of teal.
This is a crazy subculture of people. I guess there's everything out there imaginable.
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