From: rscharfy@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Ryan C Scharfy)
Subject: Re: New Study Out On Gay Percentage
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In article <C5K5LC.CyF@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> lfoard@hopper.Virginia.EDU (La
wrence C. Foard) writes:
>In article <15378@optilink.com> cramer@optilink.COM (Clayton Cramer) writes:
>>
>>
>>From the Santa Rosa (Cal.) Press-Democrat, April 15, 1993, p. B2:
>>
>>    Male sex survey: Gay activity low
>>
>>    A new natonal study on male sexual behavior, the most thorough
>>    examination of American men's sexual practices published since
>>    the Kinsey report more than four decades ago, shows about 2
>>    percent of the men surveyed had engaged in homosexual sex and
>>    1 percent considered themselves exclusively homosexual.
>>
>>    The figures on homosexuality in the study released Wednesday
>>    by the Alan Guttmacher Institute are significantly lower than
>>    the 10 percent figure that has been part of the conventional
>>    wisdom since it was published in the Kinsey report.
>
>1) So what?

So there are less gays, then the gays claim.
>
>2) It will be interesting to see the reaction when 2.5million queers
>   gather in Washington DC. After all if there are only 6million of
>   us then this is an event unprecidented in history...
>

Dream on.  Abortion and African-American Civil rights rallies don't even bring
in half of that.

>>The article also contains numbers on the number of sexual partners.
>>The median number of sexual partners for all men 20-39 was 7.3.
>
>Don't forget that 25% had 20 or more partners....
>

I was wondering why I wasn't getting laid.

>>Compared to the table I have already posted from Masters, Johnson,
>>and Kolodny showing male homosexual partners, it is apparent that
>>homosexual men are dramatically more promiscuous than the general
>>male population.
>
>And what did this study show for number of sexual contacts for those
>who said they where homosexual? Or is that number to inconvient for
>you....
>

If it's more, then who cares?

>>It's a shame that we don't have a breakdown for
>>straight men vs. gay/bi men -- that would show even more dramatically
>>how much more promiscuous gay/bi men are.
>
>Fuck off
>

Actually, I bet you more gay/bi men are as not as promiscuous as gay men, 
because more of them could have the "option" of living a straight life, and 
with social pressures, probably would at least try.

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Did you know that is is a fact that homosexuality was comparatively high in 
Hitler's storm troopers (SA) before he came to power.  I wonder if they got to 
put the triangles on themselves......

Ryan
