My wife and I were having a discussion about girls and women who wear rings on their thumbs. She says it’s just a fashion statement. I agreed, but told her I’d heard that it’s an indication that the wearer is a lesbian. She said she’d never heard of this. I don’t care one way or the other, but I told her I’d post here and find out. It’s like the “guy wearing one earring in a certain ear” indicates he’s a homesexual.
Has anyone else heard this?
I’ve heard that if the right ear was peirced it meant the piercee was gay. Maybe we should ask the gay guy?
I’ve never heard the one about the thumb ring though and I often wear a thunb ring. JFTR I’m not gay [sienfeld] not that there’s anything wrong with it [/seinfeld]
Nah. As far as I know, hasn’t got one damn thing to do with your sexual preference. I’ve noticed lots of chicks wearing thumb rings, and there’s no secret code involved, at least to them.
I wear a ring on my thumb (when I wear rings) and I am most certainly not a lesbian.
This is the first I’ve heard about that. The ring I wear on my thumb is one my beloved Gunslinger made for me, which happens to be too large to fit my fingers. I just think thumb rings are a fashion statement… not necessarily a statement that really says anything.
Yup, I wear a thumb ring also, and I’m married with three kids.
I also have a couple tattoos. My mother told my oldest daughter - “Classy girls don’t get tattoos. Obviously, your mother has no class.” :rolleyes:
Sheri
And Gay men don’t have only their right ear pierced…I have both my ears pierced and I’m not gay.
Sam
Another thumb-ring wearing non-lesbian checking in. I just have freakishly skinny fingers.
I have one in my left, two in my right; right now my right ear has two great blaring earrings in it… of course, i’m probably an anomalous data point 
Another heterosexual female who wears a thumb ring checking in.
I wear a thumb ring and I AM a lesbian. It used to be a way for lesbians to easily identify each other back in the day, but now I think most women just wear them because they like them.
I wear em. I am totally pro-penis.
Al.
Hey folks, is this a sig line or what? 
I had always heard they had a certain lesbian connotation,
although I know women at work who wear them and are married
with children.
I guess tempest2_2 answered the OP. I’m curious as to why they are no longer considered a way for lesbians to identify each other, though. Did they become too mainstream?
What, if anything, has taken their place as an indentifier?
I’ve known at least 2 women who wore thumb rings. Neither of them were lesbian… or… as we shall now and forever say on the Boards, both were pro-penis. (So far as I knew…)