From: rscharfy@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Ryan C Scharfy)
Subject: Re: New Study Out On Gay Percentage
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In article <1993Apr16.121720.13017@hemlock.cray.com> rja@mahogany126.cray.com (
Russ Anderson) 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.
>
>Actually, what the study shows is that 2 percent of the men surveyed
>*said* they engaged in homosexual sex and 1 percent *said* they
>considered themselves exclusively homosexual.
>

Yes, and of course the Kinsey Report taken 50 years ago in much more liberal 
times regarding homosexuality.........

>The point being that what people say and what they acutally do
>may be different.
>
>It is interesting that this clip from the newspaper did not
>mention that difference.  Maybe it is conservative media bias.  :-)
>

Or smart enough to realize that that argument would have to apply to every 
survey regarding homosexuality.  Therefore, they would look stupid. (Actually, 
Idid see Bryant Gumble bring that point up.  Hee, hee).



>     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.
>

Ryan
