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....
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If worldly means “listens to alternative music and such”.
Never heard of them; the majority of the music I listen to was made before 1970.
When I was a kid there were these 2 guys next door. My dad said they were brothers. It wasn’t until I was older that I realized that one was Puerto Rican and the other wasn’t.
Your Dad’s a funny guy!
“It wasn’t until I was older that I realized that one was Puerto Rican and the other wasn’t.”
Maybe one was adopted? :)
To damn many!
LOL!
I’ve no doubt but that there are more gays in cities, but I’d be curious as to by what process you believe cities make men gay.
Folks in rural ‘flyover’ country probably can’t believe it’s as high as 5%, whereas people like me in urban coastal cities probably can’t believe that it is that low.
Ha ha.
No pun intended, I’m sure.
Based on my non-scientific, anecdotal poll of being in pulic (shopping mall, movie theater, bowling alley, etc.) this Christmas season, I would say 3% of men over 30 and about 15% of men under 30.
They actively recruit in cities.
I don’t think your numbers are far off!
For whatever reason, sons in their teens and 20s in upper-middle-class families seem to be over 20% around here.
LOL - good point. Probably projection on his part...
I would guess some combination of recruitment, grooming, alcohol and drugs, parties, government schools and other cultural brainwashing, peer and adult pressure (or rather suction), monkey see/monkey do. A teenager's experiences can significantly shape their sexual orientation for life. Once that concrete has set a do over is impossible.
it always seems to be the mother and son reference in acceptance anecdotes. The vast majority of fathers have the common sense to reject the “normal” propaganda.
This is a totally unscientific approach to answer the question posed and is more like a argument from random observations. It’s not worthy the paper it’s printed on. Given that it’s presented as somewhat of a scientific explanation, it becomes simply propaganda posing as science, a favorite ploy of the Radical Left.
You may be right, but I hope not. But then, most of the population is in the larger coastal cities.
Sickening.....
Homosexual men prefer cities because they can hide amongst large “communities” like the Castro in SF, and practice their “lifestyle” with a certain amount of anonymity, plus cities tend to be liberal politically. In small towns they stand out like sore, um, thumbs. As for causation, I’m not going there, but I don’t buy the whole mom/dad, recruitment thing. Too many homosexuals knew they were “different” from a very early age for external cultural or parenting factors to be important.
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