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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: Bikkuri; GeronL; BCW; 2ndDivisionVet
I find it interesting that many songs are tribute to American Culture.

Like this one from SNSD.

1950's American Culture

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXZWudcVzEg

I don't but I just find it fascinating.

181 posted on 12/09/2013 4:39:25 PM PST by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.-Sarah Palin)
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To: KC_Lion

or hair dye


182 posted on 12/09/2013 4:39:53 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: cripplecreek
Ping to 181 to you too Cripple

Sorry :P

183 posted on 12/09/2013 4:40:08 PM PST by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.-Sarah Palin)
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To: KC_Lion

The US has indeed had a very big influence on that country


184 posted on 12/09/2013 4:41:28 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: GeronL; BCW
This Emblem Looks Strangely Familiar.....


185 posted on 12/09/2013 4:58:39 PM PST by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.-Sarah Palin)
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To: KC_Lion

yes it does!


186 posted on 12/09/2013 4:59:07 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: ToastedHead

Yep. OTOH, when she’s done they are eager to go...


187 posted on 12/09/2013 5:00:50 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: GeronL
Hey Look a Flag that is being Burned that ISN'T ours!!

http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/ic6qKWBdTQJ/South+Korean+Marine+Corps+Veterans+Association

Cool!

188 posted on 12/09/2013 5:02:10 PM PST by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.-Sarah Palin)
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To: kayak; Chairman_December_19th_Society; little jeremiah; scripter; DBeers; cpforlife.org; Coleus; ...

Ping!


189 posted on 12/09/2013 5:18:07 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet ("Of the 4 wars in my lifetime none came about because the US was too strong." Reagan)
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To: Vendome

It doesn’t matter. Even at the high mark of 10%, these ppl should not be given the time of day in a representative republic.


190 posted on 12/09/2013 5:54:53 PM PST by SgtHooper (If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

There seem to be an awful lot of sexual degenerate males in America. Some of them are homosexual degenerates. None are ‘gay men’. We have a drug-addled sexual degenerate in the White House, and of course it is a democrat.


191 posted on 12/09/2013 5:57:46 PM PST by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

That’s funny - thanks for sharing.


192 posted on 12/09/2013 6:35:01 PM PST by GOPJ ("Remember who the real enemy is... ")
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To: GOPsterinMA; fieldmarshaldj; NFHale; BillyBoy; Clintonfatigued

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VppuD1St8Ec


193 posted on 12/09/2013 7:25:01 PM PST by Impy (RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Using surveys, social networks, pornographic searches and dating sites

Of course these are all reliable information sources where people would never ever lie about sex. Can you imagine the abuse this guys poor keyboard had to endure? Hope he put a plastic cover or something over it.

194 posted on 12/09/2013 7:43:30 PM PST by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: Impy; fieldmarshaldj; NFHale; BillyBoy; Clintonfatigued

David Bowie is a poof, bi at best.

Khent Thicke sounds like a gay name.


195 posted on 12/09/2013 7:43:57 PM PST by GOPsterinMA (You're a very weird person, Yossarian.)
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To: GOPsterinMA

He long claimed to be bi. I read that he admitted at one point that he was only pretending to bi because in 70’s glam rock it was considered hip and he become very popular by looking like a tranny. Evidence suggests he banged a lot of women.

So I dub him a male version of those 2 Russian chicks that pretended to be lesbians.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mGBaXPlri8


196 posted on 12/09/2013 8:01:29 PM PST by Impy (RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

How many men listen to Barbara Streisand?


197 posted on 12/09/2013 8:07:36 PM PST by woofie
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To: Impy

tATu? WTH? NICE!!!

Impy, you’re so worldly!


198 posted on 12/09/2013 8:25:31 PM PST by GOPsterinMA (You're a very weird person, Yossarian.)
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To: GOPsterinMA

If worldly means “reads lots of crap online”, then yes.

Never heard of tatu? They were a brief sensation for their pretend lesbian act.


199 posted on 12/09/2013 8:39:46 PM PST by Impy (RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
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To: Impy; fieldmarshaldj; NFHale; Clintonfatigued; Perdogg; KC_Lion

“He said 2% of men are gay. They’ve never had interest in a woman - and probably never will...”

The two “married” poofs that I know consist of:

a. The “wife” who has never been out/kissed/anything with a woman.

b. The “husband” who was engaged to a woman prior to coming out of the closet.

And the “wife” worries that the “husband” might “switch” back to women someday.

I just laugh at the whole thing.


200 posted on 12/09/2013 8:47:45 PM PST by GOPsterinMA (You're a very weird person, Yossarian.)
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