| Michael-5 said:
You said it's probably like 10-15% biological or something didn't you and that it's mostly psychological? You're saying it now that most homosexuals aren't homosexual for biological reasons. If environment is the cause to homosexuality, how come we see relatively similar populations of homosexuals among all ethnic groups? Surely there's bound to be enough diversity and variation among peoples lifestyles in all the world for some population somewhere to be without homosexuals, but there isn't. |
Actually, you don't ...
Canada - 1988
A study of 5,514 college and university students under the age of 25 found 1% who were homosexual and 1% who were bisexual.[6]
Denmark - 1992
A random survey found that 2.7% of the 1,373 men who responded to their questionnaire had homosexual experience (intercourse).[7]
France - 1992
A study of 20,055 people found that 4.1% of the men and 2.6% of the women had at least one occurrence of intercourse with person of the same sex during their lifetime.[8]
Ireland - 2006
A study of the responses of 7,441 individuals, conducted by the ESRI, found that 2.7% of men and 1.2% of women self-identified as homosexual or bisexual. A question based on a variant of the Kinsey scale found that 5.3% of men and 5.8% of women reported some same-sex attraction. Of those surveyed, 7.1% of men and 4.7% of women reported a homosexual experience some time in their life so far. It also found that 4.4% of men and 1.4% of women reported a "genital same-sex experience" (oral or anal sex, or any other genital contact) in their life so far.[9] The study was commissioned and published by the Crisis Pregnancy Agency in partnership with the Department of Health and Children.
Norway - 1988
In a random survey of 6,300 Norwegians, 3.5% of the men and 3% of the women reported that they had a homosexual experience sometime in their life.[10]
Norway - 2003
According to Durex Global Sex Survey for 2003, 12% of Norwegian respondents have had homosexual sex.[11]
United Kingdom - 1992
A study of 8,337 British men found that 6.1% have had a "homosexual experience" and 3.6% had "1+ homosexual partner ever."[12]
United Kingdom - 2005
HM Treasury and the Department of Trade and Industry completed a survey to help the Government analyse the financial implications of the Civil Partnerships Act (such as pensions, inheritance and tax benefits). They concluded that there were 3.6 m gay people in Britain—around 6% of the total population or 1 in 16.66 people.[13]
United Kingdom - 2010
A representative survey of 238,206 Britons, exclusive to their categories, found 1% identified as gay or lesbian and 0.5% said they were bisexual. A further 0.5% self-identified as "other", and 3% responded as "do not know" or refused to answer.[14] In total this adds up to 5% of people who do not identify as heterosexual. Ben Summerskill, Chief Executive of the gay equality charity Stonewall stated: "This is is the first time that people were asked and data collection happened on doorsteps or over the phone, which may deter people from giving accurate responses - particularly if someone isn't openly gay at home." Stonewall worked with 600 major employers and their experience had shown that these statistics increased when people were regularly asked about sexual orientation as part of general monitoring information. It was therefore suggested that much of the 3% who answered as other may simply be homosexual or bisexual and a percentage of people may have lied when they claimed to be heterosexual
While the percentage of gay people generally stays (far) under 10% of the population, there is a massive difference in reported statistics based on the country you're in.
