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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: 2ndDivisionVet

From the way the pop media culture is, I’m thinking we are all gay, we just haven’t realized it yet.


61 posted on 12/09/2013 12:47:34 PM PST by Farnsworth (Now playing in America: "Stupid is the new normal")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

62 posted on 12/09/2013 12:47:43 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (Obamacare: You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.)
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To: MIchaelTArchangel

63 posted on 12/09/2013 12:47:48 PM PST by Red Badger (Proud member of the Zeta Omicron Tau Fraternity since 2004...................)
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To: Bratch

yup, I remember someone saying that since it is a constant number over many years it make it “normal” for that percent to be this way so the lifestyle is a normal exception.


64 posted on 12/09/2013 12:47:55 PM PST by edcoil (System now set up not to allow some to win but for no one to lose!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Who cares?


65 posted on 12/09/2013 12:48:19 PM PST by truth_seeker
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

6 ?


66 posted on 12/09/2013 12:48:22 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Even if its only one man, he would still be loud and demanding.


67 posted on 12/09/2013 12:48:58 PM PST by armydawg505
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To: jrg

That reminds me of Andrew Dice Clay’s quote “You either blank blanks or you don’t blank blanks. There is no in-between”


68 posted on 12/09/2013 12:49:24 PM PST by Darren McCarty (Abortion - legalized murder for convenience)
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To: Oliviaforever
Makes sense. No woman who has put on a couple hundred pounds, stopped wearing make-up a decade ago, hasn't had a civil word to or about her spouse in years, never dresses up, house cleans by kicking debris around until it gets lost, has Pizza Hut do all the cooking, and only occasionally bathes or changes her muumuu can imagine any other reason why the hubby isn't as loving as he once was, except that he simply must be gay!
69 posted on 12/09/2013 12:49:30 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

I think our President is or bi sexual


70 posted on 12/09/2013 12:49:38 PM PST by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

0.2%


71 posted on 12/09/2013 12:49:56 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper (Revelation 6:10)
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To: cdcdawg

http://1aiway.com/nlp4net/docs/diagrammer_togo.aspx

http://1aiway.com/nlp4net/services/enparser/


72 posted on 12/09/2013 12:50:02 PM PST by Red Badger (Proud member of the Zeta Omicron Tau Fraternity since 2004...................)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

There is something in what he says, but 1) people do move from one state to another and it’s likely that homosexuals would congregate in states more accepting of homosexuality and 2) maybe the smaller number of gays in the what he calls the LTS are searching for a lot more porn than the larger number in the MTS.


73 posted on 12/09/2013 12:50:05 PM PST by x
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Seems to be a good number of happy guys right here on FR. ;-)


74 posted on 12/09/2013 12:50:16 PM PST by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: cripplecreek
6 ?

You were forced to go to a Village People concert, weren't you?

;-)

75 posted on 12/09/2013 12:50:27 PM PST by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I have always thought I was a lesbian trapped in a man’s body.

Does that count?


76 posted on 12/09/2013 12:51:21 PM PST by NY.SS-Bar9 (Those that vote for a living outnumber those that work for one.)
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To: armydawg505

AND, bent over in the shower.


77 posted on 12/09/2013 12:51:32 PM PST by alstewartfan (Lines of coffee cups on parade, Soldiers for keeping the night away, Al Stewart)
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To: Izzy Dunne

78 posted on 12/09/2013 12:51:59 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

ISGAS.

I Scarcely Give a Sh...er...SmellyObamahole.


79 posted on 12/09/2013 12:52:08 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: Kartographer

A cheeky lot, you might say.....


80 posted on 12/09/2013 12:53:01 PM PST by alstewartfan (Lines of coffee cups on parade, Soldiers for keeping the night away, Al Stewart)
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