I’m rather shocked that it’s so low. Back in the '90s, the estimate for gay people was 10%,. Here we are 30 years later when it’s perfectly fine to be out of the closet and love someone of the same sex… And the numbers haven’t changed? I would have thought it would increase with the acceptance of being gay.
where I live it’s not exactly perfectly fine to be out of the closet, lol - your mileage may vary, significantly, and people definitely still live in the closet, acceptance is not universal even if it’s much, much better than it was before (and you can see this in the generational differences, older people are less likely to come out of the closet and younger people are more likely to).
I think it’s missing the percentage of people who would absolutely fuck members of the same sex but don’t value the attraction enough to change their identity like the spring-fevered guys who know they can get a good nut fast. Another similar case is cis males who enjoy sex with trans women but otherwise pursue cis women and have families going behind their wives. There are plenty of those on Grindr now. Sexuality is wild.
Well for the foreseeable future there’s probably going to continue being a percentage that won’t report. And then maybe it’s just a matter of not everyone being LGBTQ or more? It definitely seems like it would continue increasing globally for a while though. Though given some recent events I wouldn’t be surprised if that number gets skewed for now.
I’m rather shocked that it’s so low. Back in the '90s, the estimate for gay people was 10%,. Here we are 30 years later when it’s perfectly fine to be out of the closet and love someone of the same sex… And the numbers haven’t changed? I would have thought it would increase with the acceptance of being gay.
where I live it’s not exactly perfectly fine to be out of the closet, lol - your mileage may vary, significantly, and people definitely still live in the closet, acceptance is not universal even if it’s much, much better than it was before (and you can see this in the generational differences, older people are less likely to come out of the closet and younger people are more likely to).
Well it’s 20ish% for Gen Z, so the acceptance likely plays a part there
I think it’s missing the percentage of people who would absolutely fuck members of the same sex but don’t value the attraction enough to change their identity like the spring-fevered guys who know they can get a good nut fast. Another similar case is cis males who enjoy sex with trans women but otherwise pursue cis women and have families going behind their wives. There are plenty of those on Grindr now. Sexuality is wild.
Don’t statisticians try and account for biases like that and thus may have been accurate the first time around?
Sure, but sexuality is a spectrum, and if it’s more expected I would think more people would experiment and move farther away from the norms.
Dr. House would say that people ultimately do what they want; always have.
Well for the foreseeable future there’s probably going to continue being a percentage that won’t report. And then maybe it’s just a matter of not everyone being LGBTQ or more? It definitely seems like it would continue increasing globally for a while though. Though given some recent events I wouldn’t be surprised if that number gets skewed for now.