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I could have sworn I read somewhere that it's likely 10% anyway, like 20 years ago. That was the scientific estimate of the time, although I don't though it included the same definition.
That was an estimate. Around that time only about 2-4% identified as gay but it was estimated the real number was higher because homophobia kept most people in the closet.
Yes that's what I meant by likely. I think it was slightly more than a guess, though. Something about a percentage of people not having kids being good for evolution or something. Not sure how that works, though, so don't that my word on that.
i vaguely remember a health teacher in jr or sr high saying something like that (this would be back in the '80s).. "about 10 percent, that's the same as at least three of your classmates.." (in that class)....
and then the students kinda all looked around, eyeballin' everybody.. as if they were counting.. yup. checks out. one of them blurted out "that's kinda low, don'cha think?" --this bit is why i remember the class. and she was right. it was low.
I agree. It's really hard to count since so many people love in denial. Bisexual is particularly hard to count, and there's plenty of women who fancy the idea given just how awful men are sometimes.
Edit but not really, but I like "love in denial". Happy typo I'm keeping.
Thanks for saying this. There's literally a gay sex shop called One in Ten in my city, for this reason, that's been around forever.
There was a radio show in Boston for the gay and lesbian community 30 years ago called 1 in 10.