# Lefty or righty, a poll **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 30, 2006, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lefty-or-righty-a-poll/374726 "2006-09-30T12:39:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![fisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@fisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fisha)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2006, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lefty-or-righty-a-poll/374726/1 "2006-09-30T12:39:47Z")
I was talking to a friend the other day, and the question came up about masturbation and left or right handedness. Do right handed people use their left hands and and vice versa? Is that part of the reason that left handedness is looked about as bad, or evil, or dirty in some societies? ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2006, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lefty-or-righty-a-poll/374726/2 "2006-09-30T13:01:19Z")
Hmmm. I’d never thought about that. I’m left-handed and use my right. ---
**Author:** ![fisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@fisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fisha)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2006, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lefty-or-righty-a-poll/374726/3 "2006-09-30T13:03:53Z")
My friend and I are both left handed, and use our right as well. This is why the question came up. (Yeah, ok, sometimes I have weird conversations…) ---
**Author:** ![gabriela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/db5fbb/32.png) [@gabriela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gabriela)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2006, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lefty-or-righty-a-poll/374726/4 "2006-09-30T13:27:08Z")
I’m ambimasterous. ---
**Author:** ![pbbth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@pbbth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pbbth)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2006, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lefty-or-righty-a-poll/374726/5 "2006-10-01T00:34:06Z")
I am left handed and tend to use my left when doing things manually, though I am ambidexterous towards this kind of thing if I am using something battery operated. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2006, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lefty-or-righty-a-poll/374726/6 "2006-10-01T00:36:01Z")
Righty-righty, here ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2006, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lefty-or-righty-a-poll/374726/7 "2006-10-01T00:39:44Z")
[QUOTE=dahfisheroo] Is that part of the reason that left handedness is looked about as bad, or evil, or dirty in some societies? [/QUOTE] Somehow I doubt it. The reason I doubt it is that masturbation doesn’t exist! Nobody does it. Ever. Especially in those societies with a left hand taboo, as they tend to be conservative about such things. I can see: TOURIST: Why is the left hand considered unclean? LOCAL: Because it is associated with toilet activities. I can’t see: TOURIST: Why is the left hand considered unclean? LOCAL: Because we tug our Johnsons with it. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2006, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lefty-or-righty-a-poll/374726/8 "2006-10-01T00:42:42Z")
I’m right-handed and use both (simultaneously for most of my life) but the left predominates now.