So Who Has The More Correct Estimate About The Number Of Gays In The Us Population?

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Truth is I don’t have any confidence in either source.

The “official” surveys are usually very questionable due to political and social pressures.

With the history of gay shamming in our culture, most guys are still looking in the mirror trying to deal with who they are. As a result many individuals who are gay are not willing to admit it for public review.
 
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the differences are also probably due to the fact that there are a lot more 'out' gay/queer people around, on tv etc, so there is a much greater prevalence or average joe public being aware of gays/queer people, added to the number of tv and social media debates, its probably no wonder that the general public believer the population is much higher than it is.
But I agree with the OP that the figure probably lays somewhere in between - in the UK estimates suggest that the real number is between 5-10%. Being out and gay, I think the 10% figure is too high.

In the end, other than supporting a needs assessment, does it matter? we should all just respect and be tolerant of one another and our differences and just 'get on'?
 
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The difficulty in figuring out how many gay people there are in the world (or in any given place) is centered around how you ask the questions. There are (at least) that three different ways you can approach the topic, and all of them are valid, but you'll consider very different things.

1) Identity
2) Sexual experience
3) Sexual attraction

If you poll people about their sexual identity, I believe you get numbers in the 3-4% range. If you ask about sexual experience, numbers go up to around 10% (having some same-sex experiences). And if you try to delve into the numbers of people experiencing some amount of sexual attraction you get WILDLY different numbers depending on how you phrase the questions (different polls will have especially large gaps between age groups as social acceptability has changed significantly over time).

Here's an interesting article that starts with Kinsey's (flawed) study coming up with a 10% number but eventually works it's way back to that ~10% same-sex experience number I mentioned.
Is 10% of the population really gay?
 

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The gay male population is overestimated because many people think bi men are gay or lump us under that label. I have found this especially true of women.

University lab studies have long shown that only 10% of the adult population are 100% straight or gay, meaning they have no sexual physiological response to the same or opposite sex respectively. The rest of us are bi.
 
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The gay male population is overestimated because many people think bi men are gay or lump us under that label. I have found this especially true of women.

University lab studies have long shown that only 10% of the adult population are 100% straight or gay, meaning they have no sexual physiological response to the same or opposite sex respectively. The rest of us are bi.

Or just sexual.
 
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University lab studies have long shown that only 10% of the adult population are 100% straight or gay
Unless the participants are randomly selected from the entire adult population and compelled to participate, sampling bias is rampant. Especially with anything sexual.

Personally I wonder why we care so much who's fucking whom in the first place.
 
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Or just sexual.

True dat! But our species labels everything and everyone with discriminating intellect and ego. Day/night, up/down, top/bottom, cold/hot, good/bad, left/right, in group/out group, left brain/right brain... we suffer a morass of near-schizophrenic dualisms instead of accepting we are ONE people.:cool:
 

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Unless the participants are randomly selected from the entire adult population and compelled to participate, sampling bias is rampant. Especially with anything sexual.

Personally I wonder why we care so much who's fucking whom in the first place.
I wonder why we care so much who's fucking whom in the first place.
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Ok, but what about all the straight guys who enjoy blowjobs from other men?

i can enjoy a blowjob from a woman i've done it before a couple of times. Once you find yourself enjoying something you can get "hooked" to do it often if you are open minded enough, that would not make me straight, also do not make them gay, there is no feeling in it, it is just out of lust, pleasure, oportunity and need.

What in fact make's you gay is determined by who you fall in love with, with who you see yourself buying a house a car and a dog to live with, who you desire deep in your heart, not just out of fear.

Everyone has hands (or almost everyone) everyone has a tongue, everyone can give you pleasure if you see fit to let them give it to you.

i cant fall in love with a woman, and i'm pretty aware they can give me pleasure, still i can't see a strong, beefy and hairy muscle man cause i'm instantly in love with him i want his babys inside me, i want to cook for him and feed him, kiss him, hug him, spoil him, i want to pass the night with him, i just want everything i just freaking love men, they can get me horny (if i find them atractive) just being around me. i could i've been a perfect housewive if i had born a woman, but i did not :'u



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str8 guys act like being str8 is like belonging to this fancy private club they can get expelend from for crimes against masculinity. xD!!

but u all can be sure, nothing and no one can take away my gay club membership :p! even if i behabe and looked like the machoest macho of the world.