The Gay Ten Percent Myth
The 10% figure that began with Alfred Kinsey back in 1948 has been proven to be completely inaccurate. Wardell Pomeroy, one of Kinsey’s colleagues, admitted in a 1972 book that coaching was common in the Kinsey collection of data. Source: Wardell B. Promeroy, Dr. Kinsey And the Institute for Sex Research (New York: Harper and Row, 1972), pp.97-137.
In 1966, a random study among 1,873 English youth 15-19 years of age reported that 7% of males and 3% of females had engaged in homosexual contact. Source: Schofied, M. " The sexual behavior of young people," 1965 London: Cox and Wyman.
In an unpublished 1966 Kinsey Institute study, cited by Paul Gebhard in a 1972 article, only 8% of the males and 1% of the females reported any post-pubertal homosexual activity. According to Gebhard (a Kinsey confidant), this study was based on a sample of 593 males and 584 females interviewed by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago. Source: Gebhard, P. H., "Incidence of Overt Homosexuality in the United States and Western Europe," National Institutes of Mental Health Task Force on Homosexuality: Final Report and Background Papers. 1972 Rockville, MD: NIMH, pp. 22-29.
In a nationwide random study of 3,018 adults conducted in 1970, 2.4% of males and 1.8% of females reported having homosexual relations "fairly often". Source: Kissassen, A.D., Williams, C. J. and Levitt, E. E., " Sex and morality in the U.S. Middletown," CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1989.
Four separate national surveys conducted in the United States in 1970, 1988, 1989 and 1990 by the National Opinion Research Center (total 7,408 subjects) came up with an aggregated incidence of 1.8% who had male-to-male sex during the previous year, with 3.3% percent reporting that they experienced male-to-male sexual contact "occasionally" or "fairly often" as adults, and 5-7% in a lifetime have had a homosexual encounter. Less than 0.5% of the population "go both ways" (bisexual) in a given year. Source: Robert Fay et al., "Prevalence and Patterns of Same-Gender Contact Among Men," Science 243 (January 20,1989): 338-48: S.M. Rogers and C.F. Turner, "Male-Male Sexual Contact in the U.S.A.: Findings from Five Sample Surveys, 1970-1990, Journal of Sex Research, November 28, 1991: 491-519.
A 1984 study of 2,787, 13-18 year-old inner city youths attending clinics in 10 cities reported that 3.1% of males and 0.5% of females had engaged in some homosexual activity over the past year. Source: Stuffman, A.R. and Earis, F., " Behavior risks for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in adolescent medial patients," Pediatrics 1990: vol. 85: pp. 303-310.
A nationwide survey conducted in Australia in 1986 reported that 11.2% of males had "ever" engaged in homosexual activity, and 6.1% had engaged in "the last year." The rate for females was 4.6% " ever" and 2.7% "in the last year." Source: Ross, M. W., " Prevalence of risk factors for HIV infection in the Australian population," Medical Journal of Australia 1988: vol. 149: pp. 362-365.
A 1986-1987 study of 36,741 American adolescents found that 1% had had homosexual experience in the previous year (1.6% percent of boys, 0.9% of girls), and the number reporting a homosexual orientation was 0.7% for boys (plus 0.8% bisexual) and 0.2 % for girls (plus 0.9% bisexual). Source: G. Remafedi et al., "Demography of Sexual Orientation in Adolescents," Pediatrics 89, no. 4, pt. 2 (April 1992): pp. 714-21.
In a 1987 study of 540 consecutive admissions to a VA hospital, 1.9% of all-male sample reported engaging in homosexuality in the past 10 years. Source: Gordin, F, M., Gilbert, C., Hawley, H.P. and Willoughby, A., "Prevalence of HIV in unselected hospital admissions: Implications for mandatory testing and universal precautions," Journal Infectious Diseases 1990: vol. 161: pp. 14-17.
A study of Danish men in 1987 found that of the 1,155 men aged 16-55 only 2.9% admitted to " some kind of sex with one or more men." Source: Schmidt, K. W., Krasnik, A., Brendstrup, E., Zoffman, H., and Larsen, S. O., " Occurrence of sexual behavior related to the risk of HIV infection," Danish Medical Bulletin 1989: vol. 36: pp. 84-88.
A 1987 of 6,300 Norwegian adults, aged 18-60, found 3.5% of males and 3.0% of females reported any homosexual experience during their lifetime. The study also went on to state that 0.9% of males and females reported homosexual experience in the past 3 years. Source: Sundet, J. M., Kvalem, L. L., Magnus, P., and Bakketeig, L. S., " Prevalence of risk-prone sexual behavior in the general population of Norway." The Global Impact of AIDS, NY: Liss, 1990.
Another 1987 study of 785 British adults aged 16-64 found that 0.6% of males and 0.7% of females claimed they had ever had sex with a member of their sex. Source: Johnson, A. M., Wadsworth, J., Elliott, P., Prior, L., Wallace, P., Blower, S., Webb, N. L., Heald, G. I., Miller, D. L., Adler, M. W., and Anderson, R. M., " A pilot study of lifestyle in a random sample of the population of Great Britain," AIDS 1989: vol.3: pp.135-141.
A 1988 study of 1,880 fifteen-to-nineteen-year-old males found that 0.3% had homosexual intercourse in the past year (1.4% ever), and 0.5% reported a homosexual orientation (plus 1% bisexual). Source: L. Ku, F.L. Sonenstien and J.H. Pleck, "Patterns of HIV Risk and Preventive Behaviors Among Teenage Men," Public Health Reports 107 (March/April 1992): pp. 131-38.
A statewide random telephone survey conducted in Massachusetts in 1988 found that 2% of the males reported homosexual behavior in the past year. Source: Hingson, R. W., Strunin, L., Berlin, B. M., and Heeren, T., " Beliefs about AIDS, use of alcohol and drugs, and unprotected sex among Massachusetts adolescents," American Journal of Public Health 1990: vol.80: pp. 295-299.
Another 1988 study of 1481 U.S. adults reported that 2.7% of males and 0.1% of females had engaged in relations with homosexual partners over the past 12 months. Source: Micheal, R. T., Laumann, E, O., Gagnon, J, H., and Smith, T, W., " Number of sex partners and potential risk of sexual exposure to HIV," Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 1988: vol. 37: pp. 565-568.
A 1989 survey of 1,017 University of Maryland undergraduates found that 3.3% of males said they had engaged in anal intercourse with another male. Source: Kotloff, K.L., Tacket, C. O., Lemens, J.,D., Wasserman, S. S., Cowan, J. E., Bridwell, M. W., And Quinn, T. C., " Assessment of the prevalence and risk factors for HIV type 1 infections among college students using three survey methods," American Journal of Epidemiology 1991: vol.133: pp. 2-8.
In 1989 Melbye and Biggar interviewed a well-drawn random sample of 3,178 Danish adults aged 18-59. Only 2.7% of sexually experienced males admitted to any homosexual experience in their lifetime.
In the Netherlands, a 1989 study (1,000 subjects) revealed 3.3% of men and 0.4% of women were predominantly homosexual during the previous year (12% men, 4% women ever had a homosexual encounter). Source: Diamond, "Homosexuality and Bisexuality," p.295, table 1.
England in 1989 revealed a study of randomly selected adult males that produced a figure of less than 3% engaged in homosexual sex over the past year. Source: Forman and Chilves, "Sexual Behavior of Young and Middle Aged Men in England and Wales," British Medical Journal 298 (1989): pp. 1137-42.
A 1989 Dallas survey conducted by the Research Triangle Institute found that 7.6% of males reported some homosexual activity since 1978 and 4.4% in the past 12 months. 2.8% of females reported homosexual activity since 1978, and 2.1 % over the past 12 months.
Another study in 1989 surveyed 607 consecutive patients of an STD clinic in Baltimore found that 3.6% of the males reported homosexual experiences. Source: Upchruch, D. M., Brady, W. E., Reichart, C. A., and Hook, E. W., " Behavioral contributions to acquisition of gonorrhea in patients attending an inner city STD clinic," Journal of Infectious Diseases 1990: vol. 161: pp. 938-941.
In 1989-90, Breakwell and Fife-Shaw queried 2,171 16-20-year-old in two regions of England and found that 2.4% of males and 0.9% of females had ever received homosexual oral sex.
Three separate 1990 surveys conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics found that fewer than 3% of men had experienced same-sex relations even once in the past 15 years. Source: D.A. Dawson, AIDS Knowledge and Attitudes for January-March 1999: Provisional Data from the National Health Interview Survey, Advance Data from Vital and Health Statistics 193 (Hyattsville, Md.: National Center for Health Statistics, September26, 1990), p.11: J.F. Fitti and M.Cynamon, AIDS Knowledge and Attitudes for April-June 1990: Provisional Data from the National Health Interview Survey, Advance Data from the Vital and Health Statistics 195 (Hyattsville, Md.: National Center for Health Statistics, December 18, 1990), p.11; P.F.Adams and A.M. Hardy, AIDS Knowledge and Attitudes for July-September 1990: Provisional Data from the National Health Interview Survey, Advance Data from the Vital and Health Statistics 198 (Hyattsville, Md.: National Center for Health Statistics, April 1, 1991), p. 11.
The 1990 U.S. Census figures identified 69,200 Lesbian couples and 88, 200 gay-male couples in the entire country. Those numbers are far below 1% of the U.S. population. Source: Margaret L. Usdonsky, "Gay Couples, by the numbers," USA Today, April 12, 1993, 8A.
A 1990 study of 2,655 Croatians aged 15-30, Ajdukovic reported that 1.7% of non-virgin males and 2.3% of non-virgin females reported having ever engaged in homosexuality.
A British survey conducted in 1990-1991 (among 19,000 men) found that 1.1% had homosexual partners in the previous year (3.6% ever). Source: A.M. Johnson et al., " Sexual Lifestyles and HIV Risk," Nature 360 (December 3, 1992): pp. 410-12.
A National Survey of Men in 1991 found 2% of sexually active men aged 20-39 (2.4% among whites and 1.3% among blacks) had had any same-gender sexual activity during the previous 10 years. Approximately, only 1% of the men (1.3% among whites and 0.2% among blacks) reported having participated in exclusively homosexual activity. Source: Billy, JOG, Tanfer, K, Grady, Wr, & Klepinger, DH. (1993). The sexual behavior of men in the United States. Family Planning Perspectives, 25 (2), p.58.
Also in 1991, the National Opinion Research Center data provided an estimate that of the approximately 6% who experience same-sex relations ever, the number of currently active homosexuals is 0.6-0.7% of the U.S. population. Source: T.W. Smith, " Adult Sexual Behavior in 1989: Number of Partners, frequency of Intercourse and Risk of AIDS," Planning Perspectives 23 (May/June 1991): 102-7. See p.104, table 2. Smith director of the General Social Survey Project at the NORC (University of Chicago).
Perhaps the largest and most significant study in the field is a continuing survey by the Federal government on homosexual activity and drug use. By March of 1991, the number of U.S. randomly surveyed adults had reached a staggering 119,347, making it the largest study of its kind ever conducted. This study revealed that only 3% of males had reported any homosexual activity or IV drug use since 1977. This ongoing study continues to reveal the same proportion in recent years. Source: Dawson, D. A., " AIDS knowledge and attitudes," [various dates] Advance Data, National Center for Health Statistics: DHHS Pub. No. (PHS) 88-1_250, nos. 160, 161, 163, 176, 183, 193.
A 1992 French study reported 1.1% of men and 0.3% of women having had same-sex relations in the previous year, 1.4% / 0.4% in the previous five years, and 4.1% / 2.6% ever. Source: A. Spira et al., "AIDS and Sexual Behavior in France," Nature 360 (December 3, 1992): pp. 467-9. P. Aldous, "French Venture Where U.S. Fears to Tread," Science 257 (July 3, 1992): p.25. This study involved 20,055 subjects.
A comprehensive research study in 1993 of American and other countries attempts to quantify a rate, even factoring in a bias response, suggests that homosexual sex engaged in one or more times since adolescence is a mean of 5.5% and a median of 5.3% of males and a mean 2.5% and median 3.0% of females. Round numbers would thus be 5-6% for males and 2-3% for females. When narrowed down to the recent past (one year), the numbers dropped to about half respectfully. Source: Diamond, M. (1993). Homosexuality and bisexuality in different populations. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 22 (4), pp. 291-310.
Another 1993 report by John et al interviewed 3,321 men aged 20-39 and found that only 2.3% of sexually active men had engaged in any same-gender sexual activity during the past 10 years, and approximately 1.1% had been exclusively homosexual during the same period.
A report in 1994 about information about same-gender sexual activity for both men and women stated that 2.7% of men had engaged in homosexuals in the last year, 4.1% over the past five years, and 4.9% since age 18. The results of women are 1.3% had homosexual sex in the last year, 2.2% over the past five years, and 4.1% since age 18. This information reveals that women engaged in homosexual activity about half as much amen. Source: Laumann, EO, Gagnon, JH, Micheals, RT, & Micheals, S. (1994). The social organization of sexuality: Sexual practices in the United States, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Philip Elmer Dewitt," Now the Truth about Americans and Sex," Time, October 17, 1994,p. 68.
In 1995 combined data from different surveys of men between the ages of 18 and 49, all conducted between 1988 and 1994 found that 2.6% of male respondents reported male on male sexual contact within the prior 12 months, 4% within the prior five years and 5.3% since age 18. Source: Binson, D, Micheals, S., Stall, R., Coates, TJ, Gagnon, JH, & Catania, JA. (1995). Prevalence and social distribution of men who have sex with men: United States and its urban centers. Journal of Sex Research, 32(3), pp. 245-253.
An authoritative 1997 biography exposed Alfred Kinsey as a sadomasochistic homosexual who skewed his studies to validate his behavior. Source: James Jones, Alfred C. Kinsey: A Public/Private Life, (New York: W.W. Norton, 1997).
Voter News Service reported that its exit polls found about 4% of voters in the November 7th, 2000 elections said they were gay or lesbian. Source: www.gay.net , "Exit polls found 4% of voters gays, lesbians," New York, November 8, 2000.
Conclusion:
With dozens upon dozens of studies done around the world and in America, it is clear that the 10% figure is scientific fraud. The 1990 U.S. Census adult population was 180 million. Approximately two million men and one million women engaged in at least one homosexual act during the previous year. Obviously, the people who are exclusively homosexual are less than that number. Even if you included bisexuals, about 1% of the population, the total number of people engaging in homosexual sex on a regular basis is between 2 to 3%.
Source: http://www.cprmd.org/Myths/Myth_Fact_001.htm
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