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 ...
In private?
“In the United States, of all Google searches that begin “Is my husband...,” the most common word to follow is “gay.” “Gay” is 10 percent more common in such searches than the second-place word, “cheating.” It is 8 times more common than “an alcoholic” and 10 times more common than “depressed.””
Wow.
probably less than 1%
That's not a whole lot in which to establish your identity as being legitmate.
This stuff gives me a headache. Wouldn’t this all be much easier if gay men and lesbians were attracted to each other?
The only truely gay marriage is between one man and one woman. And yes, I want the word "gay" restored to its rightful meaning. I'm tired of the laughter that nowadays accompanies the Christmas carol, Deck the Halls with the lyrics "our gay apparel".
These creatures wrongly characterized as gay are miserable, twisted deviants. They are not joyous and happy. The proper term is "sodomite" for their evil repudiation of God's Laws.
Or with a first name of Seth.
"Honest, your Honor, it was purely for research purposes"
Gay males are not MEN.
The New York Times would push an agenda? You have got to be kidding. ///sarcasm
How many men are men. Not many.
I have trouble with the credibility of a source that is predominantly pro-fag. In other words, I say Google is lying.
It’s over 50% of democrats. Who gives a flying crxp
Boy, was that ever well-said.
It isn’t 10%. Not even close.
They throw that outlier number to give themselves credibility and strength of numbers.
It is definitely something under 2% if not 1%.
Hey, if ya get better FRee WiFi in the closet, does that make you gay too? social networks and gay bars, like bugs in a rug. so much crap, who cares anymore?
this nation, this world is disintegrating. what are they doing to turn that around? being socially responsible? what the heck is that these days? they give medals of freedom to haters and commies, and Yes.. uhhhh,, rockstars
The terrorism of the minority.
That's absurd. Every credible study over the last 60 years has held steady at < 2%.
Because of relentless propagandization by the Queer agitators, it might go up by less then a percent, but that's it. Hollywood mainstreaming doesn't make the reality any less nauseating.
Don’t tell mom, it will be our little secret...
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