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OT: Rebelious reopening of locked topic 24-Aug-2010 At 7:43:24 PM prb

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On 24/08/2010 oweng wrote:
>10% of the population (gay) is a big chunk.

This much-quoted figure seems to have come from the Kinsey Report of 1948 which stated 10% of the American males surveyed were "more or less exclusively homosexual for at least three years between the ages of 16 and 55". But the sample size was only 300, 25% of the men interviewed were (or had been) prison inmates, and 5% were male prostitutes.

I recall a paper published several years ago in the Medical Journal of Australia which concluded that the prevalence of homosexuality (defined as identifying as homosexual and living accordingly) for both sexes was between 2 and 3%. And the study was done in Sydney!