Sexuality

i got 50% Gay. I am a happy and well adjusted Homo Guy. :) this thing is pretty good!
 
26%... seem like a common score.

Back to Pooky's question about degrees of homosexuality, I know Freud had a theory about innate bisexuality:

Innate bisexuality (or predisposition to bisexuality) is a term introduced by Sigmund Freud, based on work by his associate Wilhelm Fliess, that expounds that all humans are born bisexual but through psychological development – which includes both external and internal factors – become monosexual, while the bisexuality remains in a latent state.
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This view of his was later discredited by many others but it opened the way for further research into "sexuality".

As heterosexual males society of course dictates that we dare not even contemplate sexual attraction to another male never mind verbally admit to even a 1% chance of their being some arousal in the thought of it. We have been moulded to think this way through "both external and internal factors" as pointed out by Freud. Of course it is different with women and you get a large percentage of women who quite openly, and happily, admit to having a degree of curiosity about being with another woman. Men are "forced" to suppress these feelings.

So yes, Pooky, I feel that study definitely has merit. The problem is you will never get a "hot blooded" male admitting to this.

Here is some information on the studies done :

A dualistic paradigm of sexuality stayed firmly in place until the groundbreaking and binary-breaking work of Alfred C. Kinsey and his team. What would come to be known as the “Kinsey Scale” posited that sexual orientations form a continuum from 0 to 6, with 0 representing a totally heterosexual person and 6 a totally homosexual one, with many degrees of bisexuality in between. Despite some flaws in Kinsey’s research methods, such as the use of snowball sampling, his work exposed a radical disjunction between the sexual mores of post-war America and the reality of people’s sex lives. Perhaps most astonishing was his finding that 46 percent of the male population had engaged in both hetero- and homosexual activities in their adult (i.e., sexually mature) lives.

The Kinsey Scale’s assault on the hetero-homo divide was nothing short of breathtaking for its time, exposing the complexity of human sexuality while hinting subversively that the heterosexual you know may not be as hetero as you think. As a practical matter, the wall between gay and straight didn’t exactly come tumbling down in the wake of Kinsey’s research, which did, however, pave the way for more sophisticated models for measuring sexuality, such as Fritz Klein’s Sexual Orientation Grid (KSOG), introduced in his 1978 classic, The Bisexual Option.

Klein’s grid dramatically improved upon Kinsey’s scale, combining five discrete dimensions: sexual attraction, behavior, fantasies, emotional preference, and social preference (lifestyle and self-identification). Assessing a person’s past and present behavior along with ideal sexual situations, the KSOG rates desire on a seven-point scale similar to Kinsey’s but with simple verbal descriptors (1 = other sex only, 2 = other sex mostly, 3 = other sex somewhat more, 4 = both sexes, 5 = same sex somewhat more, 6 = same sex mostly, 7 = same sex only). Despite these long strides forward, the hetero-homo dichotomy has proved a hard nut to crack. From Kinsey’s time to the present, sex research almost always aggregates bisexual and homosexual activities or identities into one category, thereby erasing the concept of bisexuality altogether. (For example, Simon LeVay’s famous study of male brains, which found a difference between the brains of gay and straight men, clumped bisexuals with gay men.)
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Some studies, notably Alfred Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953), have found that the majority of people appear to be at least somewhat bisexual. Most people have some attraction to either sex, although usually one sex is preferred. According to Kinsey, only about 5-10% of the population can be considered to be fully heterosexual or homosexual. An even smaller minority can be considered truly bisexual, that is, having no distinct preference for one gender or the other.
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Pooky said:
Yeah that's it!

What does everyone think about it?
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Alfred Kinsey has been exposed as a fraud who manipulated his flawed data and abused children from the ages of 2 months to 15 years in the name of research. He was no better than Dr Josef Mengele.

BTW It's generally accepted that homosexuality across race and culture is about 2% of the population.
 
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nightjar said:
BTW It's generally accepted that homosexuality across race and culture is about 2% of the population.
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Some interesting figures on this wiki page.

Australia
2006: A study found 2-3% Australians identified as homosexual while 20% of Australians reported having
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United States
1990: An extensive study on sexuality in general was conducted in the United States. A significant portion of the study was geared towards homosexuality. The results found that 8.6% of women and 10.1% of men had at one point in their life experienced some form of homosexuality.
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France
1992: A study of 20,055 people found that 4.1% of the men and 12.6% of the women had at least one occurrence of intercourse with person of the same sex during their lifetime.
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United Kingdom
1992: A study of 8,337 British men found that 6.1% have had a "homosexual experience" and 3.6% had "1+ homosexual partner ever."
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Some of those figures are fairly high... of course one of the lower ones is a country where a man needs to be a "man", Australia. You need to bear in mind this whenever referring to these stats of course which is what I was alluding to earlier when saying that a man dare not admit to being aroused by "homosexual" acts.

Survey data regarding stigmatized or deeply personal feelings or activities are often inaccurate. Participants often avoid answers which they feel society, the survey-takers, or they themselves dislike.
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And again as regards your figure of 2%, this is for someone who is exclusively homosexual. Pooky was referring to "degrees of homosexuality".... that grey spectrum between 100% straight and 100% homosexual. Some of the studies above refer to "once off homosexual experiences". Would this mean you are then categorised as homosexual? Probably not. This type of person would probably not even call themselves bisexual. They'd see it as a once off thing.


[Please do not read below if you are under 18! ;) ]
Let's consider something I have noted..... I "accidentally" saw a porn clip the other day in which a woman was performing fellatio on two men. At one point she took their two penises and rubbed them together.... now this scene took part in a "straight" movie. Is this not a homosexual act? If those two men were together without the women and did the same would that then be a homosexual act? The same thing when two guys are penetrating a women at once. Various parts are rubbing against one another. They will also be getting stimulation from each other internally. Is this not a homosexual act? You see where the grey areas exist....
 
Those figures are way to low!! Time to step up our recruitment efforts boys. We need to make the straight boys see the light and convert them :D :p
 
Pooky said:
What is that study called by that chap that said that people are certain degrees of straight/gay, and are straight but have like 10% gay or something like that?
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You are talking about the Kinsey Report that bases sexuality on a sliding scale.
 
I see my above post is irrelevant.
Can't do the test - blocked at work.

Pooky, what is teh reason for the OP?
 
tco21 said:
I'm @ 16% but when the results were loading, I thought the loading meter was the results and got bloody worried there for a second :D
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+1 :D :D

16% and thought wtf is this :eek:
 
me well adjusted hetero man having scored 46% gayness. more than accurate.
 
30%...

I'm straight :D but I can just as easily notice a sexy girl ;) Not that I would ever act on it...

Prefer big bear hugs from sexy boys :p
 
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