{"id":1039,"date":"2004-12-02T07:21:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-02T13:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=1039"},"modified":"2004-12-02T07:21:00","modified_gmt":"2004-12-02T13:21:00","slug":"sexual-statistics-and-cultural-identification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=1039","title":{"rendered":"Sexual statistics and cultural identification"},"content":{"rendered":"

Inspired by some<\/a> comments<\/a> on an earlier entry<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So, I actually do believe that we’re talking roughly chi-squared curves here (see graphic below) with the number of sex partners on the x-axis), kind of like income distributions. And I think there is a significant bias towards gay guys having more partners. Which is not to say that there are not monogamous or celibate gay guys out there, and that they’re aren’t incredibly promiscuous heteros, but on average, median, etc, I bet that gay guys get more bootay. <\/p>\n

Remember, the plural of anecdote is not evidence. =) I’m basing my conclusions on a few things: Most prominently, gabriel rotello’s Sexual Ecology, in which he discusses the epidemiology of HIV, and (late in the book) how it corresponds to the sorts of answers hetero’s give, and homo’s give when asked about the number of partners they’ve had. Hetero’s self-reported fewer partners per unit time than homo’s self-reported. And the transmission rates supported their claims. Additionally, gay guys can have a situation where two of one’s former partners can themselves partner up (happened to me). In strictly heterosexual interactions, that’s just plain ol’ not possible. <\/p>\n

But, I think it’s nuts to pretend that there’s gay men, and everything else. For starters, there’s bi folk. And the sexual politics of lesbians are to my [limited] understanding, quite different from gay guy or hetero norms. And grouping all heteros together as though they had the same norms is equally ridiculous. Most heteros don’t have a strong (conscious) cultural identity based on their sexuality. <\/p>\n

Kind of like the thing I noted in statistics last week. The white population’s attitude to the courts showed much more variability by things like income, education, and even attitude towards marijuana than the black population’s. I attributed this to a greater cultural unity among blacks. Not saying that all blacks (or all homos, or all males, etc) belong to a unified culture, but that the “white identity” and the “heterosexual identity” is no one’s primary cultural self-identification. I suspect white heteros are more likely to define themselves by profession, religion, class, or other such ideas. <\/p>\n

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Inspired by some comments on an earlier entry. So, I actually do believe that we’re talking roughly chi-squared curves here (see graphic below) with the number of sex partners on the x-axis), kind of like income distributions. And I think there is a significant bias towards gay guys having more partners. Which is not to … Continue reading “Sexual statistics and cultural identification”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}