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- From: kane@buast7.bu.edu (Hot Young Star)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss,talk.politics.misc,ca.politics
- Subject: Re: How Many Homosexuals?
- Message-ID: <102505@bu.edu>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 22:04:11 GMT
- References: <101698@bu.edu> <kecguB3w165w@ailanth.UUCP>
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- In article <kecguB3w165w@ailanth.UUCP>
- ailanth!ailsa@wang.com (Ailsa N.T. Murphy) writes:
-
- >kane@buast7.bu.edu (Hot Young Star) writes:
- >
- >> The fact remains that 30% of the men reported being passive in anal
- >> intercourse at least once, but only 4% of the men reported engaging in
- >> gay sex at least once.
- >>
- >> Doesn't this strike anyone as just a wee bit strange?
-
- >no [...]
-
- In the original posting the corresponding figures for the French women
- were 20% and 2%. So even if men were just as likely to be passive for
- women as women were for men (NOT LIKELY), that would only account for
- 20%. The men report 30%, so there is is 10% unaccounted, 2.5 times the
- number that admit to having "gay sex" at least once.
-
- You could make two conclusions:
-
- 1. People underreport homosexual experience, or define it nebulously,
- or too specifically (in order to disqualify themselves)
-
- 2. the sample (size=20,000+) is somehow skewed. Women might underreport
- anal intercourse,...,etc.
-
- Brian
-