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How Many American Men Are Gay?
The New York Times ^ | December 7, 2013 | Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

Posted on 12/09/2013 12:28:26 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

WHAT percent of American men are gay? This question is notoriously difficult to answer. Historical estimates range from about 2 percent to 10 percent.

But somewhere in the exabytes of data that human beings create every day are answers to even the most challenging questions.

Using surveys, social networks, pornographic searches and dating sites, I recently studied evidence on the number of gay men. The data used in this analysis is available in highly aggregated form only and can be downloaded from publicly accessible sites. While none of these data sources are ideal, they combine to tell a consistent story.

At least 5 percent of American men, I estimate, are predominantly attracted to men, and millions of gay men still live, to some degree, in the closet. Gay men are half as likely as straight men to acknowledge their sexuality on social networks. More than one quarter of gay men hide their sexuality from anonymous surveys. The evidence also suggests that a large number of gay men are married to women....

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: deviant; gay; gomorrah; happy; headcount; homosexualagenda; homosexuals; onemanonewoman; psychology; queers; sodomites
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To: null and void

“He knows he’s wrong. He even got me flowers. Can you believe that? Like it will make up for everything. If he’d only be nice to me, maybe I’d feel like working out again. Maybe I’d feel like cooking dinner. Did you see there’s cake in the conference room? You better hurry up and get some. It’s almost gone.”

I never met you. You were so demonized day after day, she’d never let you meet us. She was afraid you wouldn’t come across as the prick she described.

Not.Your.Fault. (You evil woman hating man.)


141 posted on 12/09/2013 1:37:46 PM PST by ToastedHead
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To: GOPJ

The old military test to see if someone was gay was to show them photos of naked women. If the pupil of the eye opened, they were straight.

If not, then show them photos of naked men. If the pupil opened, they were homo and kicked out.

I remember reading of a young man whose mom died when he was a baby. He was raised around men only. When drafted, the military noticed something wrong with him.
He was given the test. No reaction with women photos. No reaction with men photos.
Scratching their heads, and finding out about his background, they showed him a photo of a cow. INSTANT REACTION!

I wish I knew what book I read it from. It is in the library at John Brown University in Siloam Springs Arkansas.


142 posted on 12/09/2013 1:40:05 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Sometimes you need 7+ more ammo. LOTS MORE.)
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To: NormsRevenge
this nation, this world is disintegrating. what are they doing to turn that around?

Turning it around is not profitable. It can only result in stronger citizens and stronger nation - and smaller government. Obviously, this is unacceptable to "them."

The politicians are just riding the popular wave of debris. They don't care what that wave is, or how moral it is. Today they are supporting gays; tomorrow they will support zoophilia; day after tomorrow they will support a pervertion that we have no name for yet. Politicians are only interested in power, in control. It is much easier to gain those if politicians fragment the society and create permissive atmosphere (also known as chaos.) If 99% of the society do not care about politics, or cancel each other's efforts, then the remaining 1% can take control. A well organized society will never allow 1% to control the 99%.

Note also that a chaotic society, where only 1 out of 100 neighbors may be your friend, is a necessary condition for the "fundamental transformation" of the country. The government could do whatever it wants, and the majority of your neighbors will only laugh about your predicament. A solid granite boulder cannot be easily pushed around; but loosen it up, down to a fine sand, and even a child can scoop it up.

143 posted on 12/09/2013 1:40:36 PM PST by Greysard
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To: Mechanicos
In 2010, young MSM (aged 13-24 years) accounted for 72% of new HIV infections among all persons aged 13 to 24, and 30% of new infections among all MSM. At the end of 2010, an estimated 489,121 (56%) persons living with an HIV diagnosis in the United States were MSM or MSM-IDU.”

If those figures are discountimg babies born HIV or people getting the virus through blood transfusions, they are inaccurate. I believe the number to be much closer to 100%, dig deeply enough and there's a queer in the mix somewhere.

144 posted on 12/09/2013 1:43:48 PM PST by Graybeard58 (_.. ._. .. _. _._ __ ___ ._. . ___ ..._ ._ ._.. _ .. _. .)
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To: steelhead_trout

Rock Hudson was a great actor! He made love to many of Hollywood’s most beautiful women. He was acting the whole time!

There are other such actors.

Jim Nabors moved in for a while and took up boating. It was said he was seen bobbing up and down on the Hudson.


145 posted on 12/09/2013 1:46:04 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Sometimes you need 7+ more ammo. LOTS MORE.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Homosexual men are not born that way. They just get sucked into it.


146 posted on 12/09/2013 1:46:40 PM PST by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation Continues)
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To: GOPJ
I tend to disagree with his numbers - - his stand that 96% of people are bi strikes me as wrong.

Undoubtedly he was bi.

147 posted on 12/09/2013 1:48:51 PM PST by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation Continues)
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To: Bubba_Leroy

“Homosexual men are not born that way. They just get sucked into it.”


Sometimes you don’t even notice sin. Sometimes it just enters through the back door.


148 posted on 12/09/2013 1:49:49 PM PST by steelhead_trout (MYOB)
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To: Washi
"Honest, your Honor, it was purely for research purposes"

LOL, It would be like trying to determine the number of lesbians based on the number of hits to lesbian porn sites.

Somehow I don't think 80% of the population can be lesbians.

149 posted on 12/09/2013 1:53:02 PM PST by usurper (Liberals GET OFF MY LAWN)
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To: Mechanicos
"Gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men ..."

I am trying to figure out what they mean by "other men who have sex with men" who are not either homosexual or bisexual.

Heterosexual men who get raped in prison?

150 posted on 12/09/2013 2:02:37 PM PST by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation Continues)
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To: ToastedHead

On the bright side, she finally got a job she’s good at. Helping people die...


151 posted on 12/09/2013 2:03:43 PM PST by null and void (I'm betting on an Obama Trifecta: A Nobel Peace Prize, an Impeachment, AND a War Crimes Trial...)
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To: steelhead_trout
Sometimes you don’t even notice sin. Sometimes it just enters through the back door.

That would be hard not to notice.

152 posted on 12/09/2013 2:05:37 PM PST by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation Continues)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

You are a bad man...


153 posted on 12/09/2013 2:06:15 PM PST by null and void (I'm betting on an Obama Trifecta: A Nobel Peace Prize, an Impeachment, AND a War Crimes Trial...)
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To: Bubba_Leroy

What? You think I’ve got eyes in the back of my head???


154 posted on 12/09/2013 2:07:43 PM PST by null and void (I'm betting on an Obama Trifecta: A Nobel Peace Prize, an Impeachment, AND a War Crimes Trial...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

A very insignificant amount that should by all rights, have no toe-hold on anything political, that impacts the entire population of the Continental U.S.


155 posted on 12/09/2013 2:28:55 PM PST by Terry L Smith
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Every male who voted for Obama is gay, homosexual, sexually perverted, among other undesirable habits. Voting for Obama was a coming out of the closet experience for millions of them.


156 posted on 12/09/2013 2:31:30 PM PST by pallis
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
>> Gay men are half as likely as straight men to acknowledge their sexuality on social networks. <<

Seems to me it would be the opposite. I know numerous straight men who are attracted to females but don't discuss it on social networks, but virtually all the gay men I know on social networks love to discuss how about they're into other guys and "oppressed" by the government.

157 posted on 12/09/2013 2:42:48 PM PST by BillyBoy (Liz Cheney's family supports gay marriage. Do you?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Gay men? I know a lot of men who are happy. Oh, he means perverts....


158 posted on 12/09/2013 2:43:43 PM PST by Bigg Red (Wait for the LORD; be strong, and let your heart take courage. -Ps27)
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To: driftdiver

...any article on sexuality from a man with a hyphenated name is suspect.

&&
Similar to my thoughts, as well.


159 posted on 12/09/2013 2:45:31 PM PST by Bigg Red (Wait for the LORD; be strong, and let your heart take courage. -Ps27)
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To: null and void

Great job. You made me cough and I spilled my drink...


160 posted on 12/09/2013 2:57:19 PM PST by ToastedHead
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