[ssiguy]

The 10% figure often quoted is complete crap. It originally came from the Kinsey Report in the early 1950s and was the first real attempt in the US to put statistics to American's sexuality. It stated the homosexuality rate was 10% of the total population.

Some gay rights groups advocated the use of that stupid figure but the report was so flawed in how it was carried out that it bears no weigth among contemporary sociologists. The only thing it really did was bring the topic of homosexuality "out of the closet" but as far as statistical analysis goes it's a bad waste of a tree.

The report was done only on a university campus and only in Liberal Arts section.............not a cross section of the populas but Kinsey thought it was fine. Kinsey was either gay or bisexual and went out of his way to create figures that made homosexuality far more prevelent than it is. He stated that in some cultures upwards of 40% of the adult population is gay or bisexual which is complete crap.

The modern and generally acknowledged figure cross culturally is estimated to be 3% of the adult population is strickly homosexual and approximately another 7% to 8% are bisexual.

Homosexuality has some interesting genetic characteristics...........identical twins are far more likely to both be gay than if they were simply regular siblings. Also the more children born by a mother the chance of having a gay child grows far faster than it statistically should. Technically every child should have a 3% chance of being a gay adult but that is not the case..............it is about 5% for 2 children family {not 6% as it staistrically should be} but at the same time a family with 6 children should have an 18% of one gay adult child but the figure is closer to 23%.