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Homosexual Unions Last Only 1.5 Years, Says New Study
LifeSiteNews.com ^ | July 14, 2003 | LifeSiteNews.com

Posted on 07/15/2003 11:16:01 AM PDT by Polycarp

Homosexual Unions Last Only 1.5 Years, Says New Study

AMSTERDAM, July 14, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) - As Canada and several U.S. states move toward the legalization of so-called homosexual "marriage," a new study has found that homosexual partnerships last, on average, only one-and-a-half years.

The study is based on the health records of young Dutch homosexuals by Dr. Maria Xiridou of the Amsterdam Municipal Health Service and published in the May issue of the journal AIDS. It also found that men in homosexual relationships have an average of eight partners a year outside their main partnership, adding more evidence to the "stereotype" that homosexuals tend to be promiscuous.

The findings are "proof positive that these relationships ... will never be as stable as a normal heterosexual relationship regardless of what institutions or laws are changed," said Pete LaBarbara, senior policy analyst at Concerned Women for America's Culture and Family Institute, who predicts that homosexual promiscuity will remain "rampant."

See Washington Times coverage:

http://dynamic.washtimes.com/print_story.cfm?StoryID=20030711-121254-3711r

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Study finds gay unions brief

By Amy Fagan

Published July 11, 2003

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A recent study on homosexual relationships finds they last 1-1/2 years on average — even as homosexual groups are pushing nationwide to legalize same-sex "marriages."

The study of young Dutch homosexual men by Dr. Maria Xiridou of the Amsterdam Municipal Health Service, published in May in the journal AIDS, mirrors findings of past research.

Among heterosexuals, by contrast, 67 percent of first marriages in the United States last at least 10 years, and researchers report that more than three-quarters of married people say they have been faithful to their vows.

Same-sex "marriage" has gained new attention since a Supreme Court decision last month struck down state laws against homosexual behavior. Conservative activists say they expect the state Supreme Court in Massachusetts to rule this weekend on whether to recognize homosexual "marriages."

The Dutch study — which focused on transmission of HIV — found that men in homosexual relationships on average have eight partners a year outside those relationships.

Earlier studies also indicated that homosexual men are not monogamous, even when they are involved in long-term relationships.

In "The Male Couple," published in 1984, authors David P. McWhirter and Andrew M. Mattison report that in a study of 156 males in homosexual relationships lasting anywhere from one to 37 years, all couples with relationships more than five years had incorporated some provision for outside sexual activity.

"Fidelity is not defined in terms of sexual behavior but rather by their emotional commitment to each other," the authors said. "Ninety-five percent of the couples have an arrangement whereby the partners may have sexual activity with others."

Such findings show how recognition of same-sex unions would "erode the ideal" of traditional marriage, Pete LaBarbara, senior policy analyst at Concerned Women for America's Culture and Family Institute.

"They're redefining what it means to be monogamous," Mr. LaBarbara said. "It's just preposterous to claim that these relationships even approximate normal, steady relationships."

The Amsterdam study is "proof positive that these relationships ... will never be as stable as a normal heterosexual relationship regardless of what institutions or laws are changed," Mr. LaBarbara said.

But homosexual groups say recent data indicate that homosexual relationships look increasingly like heterosexual marriage.

About 40 percent of homosexual couples had been together in a household for at least five years, compared to roughly 60 percent of married heterosexual couples who had been together at least that long, according to an analysis of Census Bureau data produced for the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation.

The HRC analysis found that relationships were shortest for unmarried heterosexual partners living together, only 18 percent of whom had been together in the household for at least five years.

"Anecdotally, there's quite a bit of evidence that as gays and lesbians are becoming more accepted, you're finding greater levels of stability," said Gary Gates, a researcher for the Urban Institute who compiled the data for HRC, which supports same-sex "marriage."

Mr. Gates said 25 percent of male homosexual couples had children in the household and 38 percent of lesbian couples had children in the household, compared with 48 percent of heterosexual married couples. And 66 percent of the male homosexual couples and 68 percent of lesbian couples owned their home, compared with 81 percent of heterosexual married couples. He said these are signs of increasing stability.

David Smith, spokesman for HRC, dismissed the Amsterdam study, saying he personally has been in a monogamous relationship for 10 years and, "most gay people I know have been in relationships many, many years and they're absolutely monogamous."

He said his personal experience is that homosexuals settle down just like heterosexuals.

He also said those throwing out "wild charges" that homosexuals are promiscuous are hypocritical because they will not let same-sex couples have marriage rights, which would provide even more stability under the law.

But Mr. LaBarbara said marriage would not change the promiscuity he called "rampant" among homosexuals. He said on the contrary, same-sex "marriage" would just "erode [marriage] further."

The state of Vermont has allowed civil unions between same-sex couples since 2000, and a study by two University of Vermont psychology professors compared homosexual couples in civil unions with homosexual couples not in unions, and married heterosexual couples.

Among the Vermont findings, the overwhelming majority of women — both lesbians and married heterosexuals — felt it was not acceptable to have sex outside of their primary relationship. However, 79 percent of married men felt sex outside marriage was not OK, compared to 34 percent of homosexual men in committed relationships and 50 percent of homosexual men in civil unions.

But such open relationships — in which homosexual men accept that their partners will have sex with others — are not harmful, said Anne Peplau, a psychology professor at the University of California at Los Angeles.

"There is clear evidence that gay men are less likely to have sexually exclusive relationships than other people — but this is not typically harmful to their relationships because partners agree that it's acceptable," said Miss Peplau. "Many heterosexual men also are non-monogamous, but may be more secretive about their behavior."

However, Peter Sprigg, director of Marriage and Family Studies at the Family Research Council, pointed to a 1997 national survey published in the Journal of Sex Research that found 77 percent of married men and 88 percent of married women had remained faithful to their marriage vows.

According to 2001 data from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), 67 percent of first marriages last 10 years, and 50 percent last 20 years. Marriages involving teenagers are more prone to divorce; for marriages in which the bride is at least age 20, about 60 percent last 20 years, according to NCHS data.

Copyright © 2003 News World Communications, Inc. All rights reserved.

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1 posted on 07/15/2003 11:16:01 AM PDT by Polycarp
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To: Polycarp
Looks like a 'Golden Age' is coming for divorce lawyers.
2 posted on 07/15/2003 11:17:41 AM PDT by Semper Paratus
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To: .45MAN; AKA Elena; al_c; american colleen; Angelus Errare; Antoninus; aposiopetic; Aquinasfan; ...
Comment from a peer in the culture wars:

For those of you who are married, try telling your spouse that you'll be having only four "outside" sex partners this year (down from 8; see story). "Gay monogamy" is a myth, for men at least, and David Smith of Human Rights Campaign is a first-class liar.

ping

3 posted on 07/15/2003 11:17:53 AM PDT by Polycarp (When a mother can kill her own child, what is left of the West to save?" - Mother Theresa)
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4 posted on 07/15/2003 11:20:16 AM PDT by Support Free Republic (Your support keeps Free Republic going strong!)
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To: Semper Paratus
Looks like a 'Golden Age' is coming for divorce lawyers.

And homicide detectives.

Some of the bloodiest and most brutal murders are caused by homosexual men venting their rage on an ex-lover. I know of many cases where the investigator enters the scene and in just moments has [correctly] determined that the killer was a homosexual. It may be grotesque genital mutilations, thirty or more stabbings, full body blunt trauma wounds..

I know knee-jerk sodomites and their apologists will instantly come to the defense of their comrades by reminding us that hetereos are known to do it to, but not to the level of it being part of a profile.

5 posted on 07/15/2003 11:22:34 AM PDT by Dr Warmoose
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To: Semper Paratus
Bingo....the law of unintended consequences comes back to bit'em on the ass..big time...
6 posted on 07/15/2003 11:24:01 AM PDT by ken5050 (ann coulter NEEDS to have kids ASAP....her gene pool has to be passed on.....any volunteers?)
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To: Polycarp
1.5 years? Tut tut. They're just like us, only a little different. If they didn't have the inordinate pressure from us straights, their relationships would last much longer. It's our fault. I think reparations are in order. Where's my wallet?
7 posted on 07/15/2003 11:25:23 AM PDT by laweeks
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To: ken5050
the law of unintended consequences comes back to bit'em on the ass..big time...

Good metaphore for this thread.

8 posted on 07/15/2003 11:26:40 AM PDT by Semper Paratus
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Ping.

Here's one for the archives. Thanks for the post.

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9 posted on 07/15/2003 11:27:16 AM PDT by scripter (Thousands have left the homosexual lifestyle.)
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To: Polycarp
"He also said those throwing out "wild charges" that homosexuals are promiscuous are hypocritical because they will not let same-sex couples have marriage rights, which would provide even more stability under the law."

What a jerk.

We're not promiscuous, but the reason we are promiscuous is because we don't have marriage rights.

10 posted on 07/15/2003 11:56:13 AM PDT by robertpaulsen
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To: Polycarp
Well I'ved always said if someone really wanted to make homosexuals miserable just legalize homosexual marriage. I can imagine all the drama over why one doesn't want to get married, where is this relationship going, etc. Not to mention messy expensive divorces, alimony, etc. File under "Be careful what you wish for".
11 posted on 07/15/2003 11:58:24 AM PDT by Hugin
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To: Polycarp
Homosexuality:

Homosexuality is deviant sexual behavior and a mental illness.

Homosexuals: 1) subject their body parts to uses nature did not intend, such activities often presenting immediate risk to the participants; 2) are prone to greater suicide, depression and other mental disorders and deficiencies than the heterosexual population at large; 3) are prone to far greater sexually transmitted diseases, including AIDS, than the (normal) heterosexual population; 4) molest young people (pedophilia) at a far greater rate than heterosexuals; 5) engage in degrading sexual promiscuity, oftentimes engaging in risky sex with many partners during the same event; 6) are engaged in aggressive and widespread efforts to indoctrinate our children by introducing the homosexual lifestyle using public schools as the primary indoctrination “vehicle” and likewise, through the movie/music/TV industry, with the dual goals of gaining school-age acceptance of homosexuality and encouraging sexual activity among children, especially same-sex experimentation; 7) view most everything through a mindset heavily biased in favor of the homosexual lifestyle and culture, which renders them mostly useless when asked to opine on matters that normal heterosexuals better resolve.

The mental deficiencies described herein applying to homosexuals shall not be confused with the deficiencies associated with the left wing democrat/socialist/marxist/ feminist/environmentalist minds, etc., which have their own distinct set of mental disorders.

This doesn't even touch on what the Bible has to say about homosexuality.
12 posted on 07/15/2003 11:58:58 AM PDT by Imagine
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To: Polycarp
Hmmm ... I wonder if when gay marraige is legalized (I'm pretty sure it's coming) will it be the 'b*tch' that rapes the gay butch guy in court ?

The divorce industry will quadruple overnight.

13 posted on 07/15/2003 12:01:22 PM PDT by Centurion2000 (We are crushing our enemies, seeing him driven before us and hearing the lamentations of the liberal)
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INTSUM
14 posted on 07/15/2003 12:11:17 PM PDT by LiteKeeper
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To: Semper Paratus
for what? there are no assets or alimony in a 2 year or less divorce. There is no reason to hire a lawyer and this can be a do-it yourself job. This will just clog the courts with unimportant cases.

No lawyer is going to make money for homosexual divorces.

PROBATE may have money because parents will sue for fraud since their child was not a sodomite.
15 posted on 07/15/2003 12:11:24 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (Vote!)
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To: longtermmemmory
Community property laws in California would not apply in Gay divorce? Most gay couples who would marry are probably more well off than hetrosexual couples.
16 posted on 07/15/2003 12:15:20 PM PDT by Semper Paratus
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To: Semper Paratus
Except for the issue of adoption, which is a real problem, I don't give a rat's ass about gay marriage, and I suspect that most people - even including most conservatives - feel the same.

It's just that those who do care about are so passionate - thus filling up endless threads on FR denouncing gays, ect.

But its been very boring for a while now. It is just psychologically strange to be obsessed about other's sexuality in the manner of some activists.
17 posted on 07/15/2003 12:37:57 PM PDT by BCrago66
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To: BCrago66
yada yada yada

Surely you can do better than that tired old canard...

18 posted on 07/15/2003 12:52:20 PM PDT by Polycarp (When a mother can kill her own child, what is left of the West to save?" - Mother Theresa)
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To: BCrago66
When gays keep their sex lives to themselves and GLSEN and other groups stay out of the schools some of us won't be obsessed (as you say) with the sex lives of others.

Besides that, many have left the homosexual lifestyle and those of use who are true friends to homosexuals will continue to help homosexuals who want out of their destructive lifestyle.

19 posted on 07/15/2003 12:57:56 PM PDT by scripter (Thousands have left the homosexual lifestyle.)
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To: Polycarp
Remember that a monogamous 'homosexual' couple was responsible for the torture, rape and murder of JESSE DIRKHISING

Any exposure of children to homosexual behvaior is child abuse

20 posted on 07/15/2003 1:57:56 PM PDT by John O (God Save America (Please))
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