#124 — Your ignorance of history never ceases to amaze me.
Homosexuals tend to be about 2% or so of any population anywhere in the world. As near as can be determined this is a constant and has been. It’s one of those little hint things that says it’s not a choice.
You better have some sources for that. I’ve seen a variety of studies done measuring homosexuality, and there is actually a bit of variation. Of course, in some places, the percentages are much higher. San Francisco Dept. of Public Health in the 1990s used 11% of the male population in S.F. and 4% of the female population as gay or bisexual. British studies of homosexual incidence tend to show somewhat higher percentages of men who have ever had homosexual sex than studies in France or the U.S. And I’ll be curious to see your citations to studies of homosexual incidence in the Muslim world, in Japan, in Mongolia, and in Africa.
There is a recent study of changing rates of homosexual incidence in the U.S. 1988-2004 in the Electronic Journal of Human Sexuality.
Using simple cross-tabulations, the prevalence of homosexual contact in America was estimated by sex, year, and various sociodemographic variables. The subsequent results of three estimation models (OLS, logit, and probit) revealed a statistically significant causal effect of the urbanization character of an individual’s residential environment at age 16 on the likelihood that the same individual would engage in homosexual behavior as an adult. The results empirically confirm the idea that sexuality is socially constructed, thus bringing quantitative social scientific inquiries about human sexuality closer to relevant theoretical perspectives.
Sorry, your claim that the rates are fixed just got blown away.
