What is your color/s and side?
Guys girls are left or right wearer?
are you familiar with the bandanna code?
Lolik wrote:
Guys girls are left or right wearer?
are you familiar with the bandanna code?
Bandanna code????
I was curious, so I googled it: ''The handkerchief code (also known as the hanky code, the bandana code, and flagging) is a color-coded system, employed usually among the gay male casual-sex seekers or BDSM practitioners in the United States, Canada, Australia and Europe, to indicate preferred sexual fetishes, what kind of sex they are seeking, and whether they are a top/dominant or bottom/submissive.''
I think I'd need to wear one to the left and one to the right, with way too many colours on each, haha! xD
Also for ladies
Gay Lesbian Hanky Codes - pink uk
google it
This was news to me over here in the states . As somewhat of a biker most of us wear blue or black . In the inner cities blue or red for gang affliations .
So what is your color and side today or now?
Rare that I wear one anymore , used to wear one in dew rag ( wrapped around top of head ) before helmet laws kicked in .
Sorry , blue .
I’m orange left side now.
hows you sex mood today?
Good heavens! I’ve known since forever about the handkerchief code among gay men, but as far as I know it’s ancient history now: something of the 1970s - 80s. You mean there are still people using it?
In the 2010s a similar code developed among some Femme/Lipstick Lesbians using nail polish, mostly involving having an accent colour on the ring finger of the left hand. Essentially, the colour used indicated what kind of sex you were into, although I believe the code got more complicated over time. It got somewhat subverted when the accented-ring-finger thing became fashionable among straight women. I believe it’s still in use by a minority, though. After all, if you’re in a Lesbian bar there’s little risk of hitting on a straight gal.
Further reading:
Was also massively shocked to see the idea of hanky code still used today! I know plenty about it albeit through reading up on queer history rather than being there (before my life, let alone my time). Surprised to see though.
I wonder if the OP lives in a country where queer trends of communication have moved rather more slowly - perhaps a country/culture that is still predominantly homophobic, where such signalling is still in use? I guess we’ll never know…
I think @Lolik said they were from Israel.
Oooo well spotted, Ian - ta. I’m going to do a bit of research now, to satisfy my curiosity. On paper (i.e. in terms of LGBT-affirming legislation), Israel is supposed to be pretty enlightened. There’s a big difference between legal frameworks and culture, though. So it’s possible that the handkerchief code is still in use over there.
Also… apparently (it’s news to me) there is now a NEW hanky code - maybe that’s what he was on about?
I think they may have meant it as a game. So it was more picking it off the chart to match how you felt today, rather something they’d do in real life? It probably would have been helpful to have the chart to pick from.
Orange left seems to be ‘anytime, anywhere’ from the chart in your link @PleasureDrone.
I think we’d have to pop a picture of it in Images to share in topics to make it easier for people to see?
I guess we could, although to be honest I’m not sure it’d get much use. It’s so archaic!
The LH forum members are a pretty diverse mob, but even so I wouldn’t call this place Queer Central - we’re more of a random cross-section of society. I find it fascinating that Lolik thought it perfectly reasonable to jump into a forum that’s not exclusively or even predominantly made up of LGBT folks and expect us all to be familiar with the language of a long-defunct flagging system for Gay men. What next, I wonder? I mean… my Polari is very rusty!
Just Google for the chart