What is the percentage rate for homosexual men being in long-term relationships longer than 5 years?
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My partner and I have been together 15 -- don't know what percentages are -- just over 50% of straight marriages last 15 years, so my guess is a bit lower (no societal pressure or legal loss from separation) probably in the 40% range -- we know a couple that have been together 45.  That's the longest I know of.\n\nNot an exact answer, but i hope it helps.\n\nReynolds Jones\nSchenectady, NY\nhttp://www.rebuff.org
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LOL!  Homosexualism? That's the most creative made-up word I've ever seen on Yahoo! Answers (and that's saying something).  Anyway, homosexuals make up just over 4% of the population, so yes, it is statistically abnormal.  However, there are many heterosexuals who suffer from equally striking 'perversions', such as various fetishes.  Unfortunately, medical science lacks a sufficiently advanced understanding of human sexuality to really address these issues.  Okay, that was kinda' vague and rambling, but I just couldn't resist popping in to a question with the word 'homosexualism' in the title ;)
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dolphins and giraffes both form long term homosexual relationships. There is a kind of monkey that prefers lesbian relationships. \n\nThey are born that way, it has to do with levels of estrogen and testosterone in the womb. I feel that love is love, no matter where you find it. \n\nReligiously: If God makes everyone/everything, and God makes no mistakes, then she made them they way that she wanted them (gay) and it was not a mistake nor was it wrong in any way.\n\nIt is society that has decided that being gay is bad. And not all societies feel/felt that way. For example the ancient Greeks (inventors of democracy) were thought strange if the did NOT have a young male lover. Women didn't count as they were locked up in the hosue and not allowed out. If they needed to go to their friends party or to concert or such they took their young homosexual lover, not their wife.
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In terms of what?  The first thing that comes to my mind is that 10% (or 1 in 10) people are gay.
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This is an enormously complex and divisive question.  In the LGBT community, the traditional wisdom is that it is 10% of the population.  There are some studies out there that support this number, others that say as high as 16% (a lot depends, by the way, on how you define "bisexual," particularly in women), and some other studies say as low as 2%.  In 2000, the last Census year before the current anti-Gay hysteria took over the Federal government, there was a lot of pressure to use the Census to begin to figure out just how many self-identified LGBT people there were in America, but the political backlash from the predictable Christian Right crowd stifled that.  Still, the census does reveal an astonishingly high number of people who are "heads of households" with biologically unrelated adults of the same gender in their home, so figure it out for yourself.
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351,518 people were living with AIDS in the US at the end of 2000 ... 79.4% of them were men and 76.8% of them were 35-64 years old (20.1% are 20-34) \n\n800,000-900,000 US residents are estimated to be living with HIV infection ... and 1/3 of them don't know they are infected ...
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Kinsey Reports had 10% of men and an average of 4% women being homosexual.\nA 1990 study had 13.95% of men and 4.25% of women being homosexual.\nA 1993 study had 9% of men and 5% being homosexual.\n\nJudging by the similarities of these studies, it appears that gay men outnumber lesbians by 2 to 1.
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Looks like everyone is going through another sexist trip . . . I've answered this question before . . . and as usual women ignore the facts . . . . so here it again.\n\nKinsey Report, published more than 50 years ago, approximately 60 per cent of men, compared to 30 per cent of women, were unfaithful to their spouses before the age of 40. \n\nAccording to Maggie Scarf, author of "Intimate Partners," first published in 1987 by Random House, \n"Most experts do consider the 'educated guess' that at the present time some 50 to 65 percent of husbands and 45 to 55 percent of wives become extramaritally involved by the age of 40 to be a relatively sound and reasonable one." \n\nNote that the above adultry statistics of the prevalence of affairs were made more than a decade ago; so based on changes in society during the intervening years, the current percentage of the population who have had affairs is probably somewhat HIGHER. For instance, the continuing increase of women in the workplace means that the numbers for women having affairs is probably similar to those for men—about 60%.\n\nCosmo recently conducted an online poll of 1,000 men and 1,000 women, and 55 percent of guys and a shocking 59 percent of ladies said they have cheated on a partner.
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Main problem in gathering statistics on gays is that many people who are homosexual do not want to admit, even to an anonymous interviewer.  This is particularly true of people in heterosexual marriages.  Probably Kinsey's 10% figure was skewed higher by some sampling problems.  The low-end figures are likely wrong due to people not being honest when surveyed.  An article in the gay press today said the British government estimated about 6% of its population was gay.
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Yes.  Mine for one.\nThe 'infatuation' stage of love lasts no more than a year.  After that, marriage is a full-time job for both partners.  It can, and is, done a lot of the time.  You just do not hear about the successes, just as you rarely hear 'good news' on the network news reports.
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Estimates are between 5 and 10%\n\nThis does of course depend on what you mean by "gay."
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What the poll didn't ask was how many had ever been in "committed relationships without being married that have now ended?"\n\nIt's no surprise that divorce rates are highest among this group, because MARRIAGE rates are highest among this group.  They only believe and practice monogamous marital sex and procreation, and the further down the list, the further you get away from that concept of marriage.  The Gallup Poll question is misleading in this respect.\n\nThe poll question also does not specify that the divorces happened AFTER one or both members of the couple were saved, yet an author cited in the same article blatantly makes that statement.   Faulty / incomplete data.
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sexual maturity at 25 and live to aprox 80 years
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Did you know that for every older brother a guy has, his chance of being gay increase by 25%? So, if you have 4 older brothers, your chance of being gay is 100%!! Strange enough for ya?
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Estimates are between 5-10% of the population is gay, anywhere.  Geography has no effect on sexuality, but local cultures may make it harder in some countries to be "out"\n\nIllinois is no higher or lower than any other state in the USA, Canada, or Mexico
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mostly lust today, thats why the divorce rate is so high, 40 years ago it was love and people stayed married 50 and 60 years.
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The ten percent figure is based on three separate scientific studies.\n\nThe Kinsey Reports of 1948 and 1953 stated 37% of males and 13% of females had homosexual experiences, but this includes incidental homosexual experience. The study reported 10% of males being more or less exclusively homosexual and 2% to 6% of females being more or less exclusively homosexual.\nA 1990 study (Homosexuality/Heterosexuality by McWhirter, Sanders, and Reinisch) stated 13.95% of males and 4.25% of females had "extensive" or "more than incidental" homosexual experience.\nA 1993 study (The Janus Report on Sexual Behavior) found 9% of men and 5% of women were involved in frequent or ongoing homosexual experiences, but only 4% of men and 2% of women called themselves homosexual. This difference can be attributed as those who were 'out' and those who were 'closeted'.