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Originally Posted by bizaro86
Not mikey, but you might look at:
Laumann, Edward, et al. The Social Organization of Sexuality : Sexual Practices in the United States. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.
In this study, the median number of partners for homosexual men was 6 while it was 5 for heterosexual men. While not a huge difference, it was there. And the differences in the average as calculated by the mean was greater.
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OkCupid released some data a while back.. a dating site probably doesn't fully represent the population, but since it selects for people looking for a relationship one would expect the numbers to be wrong on the high side.
Anyway this is what they said:
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Median Reported Sex Partners
-straight men: 6
-gay men: 6
-straight women: 6
-gay women: 6
Here's how the distribution curves compare:
45% of gay people have had 5 or fewer partners (vs. 44% for straights)
98% of gay people have had 20 or fewer partners (vs. 99% for straights)
It turns out that a tiny fraction of gays have single-handedly two-handedly created the public image of gay sexual recklessness—in fact we found that just 2% of gay people have had 23% of the total reported gay sex, which is pretty crazy.
. . .
Straight people have gay sex, too.
Another inquiry that had unexpected results: we asked 252,900 straight people Have you ever had a sexual encounter with someone of the same sex?
Almost a quarter answered 'yes'.
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http://gizmodo.com/5661086/data+back...-everyone-else