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OK Cupid blog post on gay vs straight sex habits

  • 12-10-2010 7:25pm
    #1
    fergalr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,922 ✭✭✭


    http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/gay-sex-vs-straight-sex/

    Very interesting post. Quantitative data on a lot of barstool questions.

    For example, 7% of straight men have had homosexual sex and enjoyed themselves, vs 26% of straight women.
    I wonder if the stats in Ireland would be similar?
    They've a really interesting heatmap of gay curiosity too, be interesting to see a global version.


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  • #2
    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    Also if your hand is the size of your face.


    Go on..............check.


  • #3
    tman
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    fergalr wrote: »
    For example, 7% of straight men have had homosexual sex and enjoyed themselves, vs 26% of straight women.
    Wouldn't that make them bisexuals rather than straight men/women?:confused:


  • #4
    Deus Ex Machina
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,556 ✭✭✭Deus Ex Machina


    Bi now, gay later.


  • #5
    fonecrusher1
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    Everyones gay.


  • #6
    smash
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    All i took from that article is that women are stupid...

    WhichIsBiggerCredit.png


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  • #7
    twinytwo
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    lol remindes me that gay dude who said everyone is born gay.. but that your parents turn you straight:rolleyes:


  • #8
    BotFly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 43 ✭BotFly


    twinytwo wrote: »
    lol remindes me that gay dude who said everyone is born gay.. but that your parents turn you straight:rolleyes:
    My mum is sexy tbf.


  • #9
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,202 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    steve06 wrote: »
    All i took from that article is that women are stupid...

    WhichIsBiggerCredit.png

    All women, or just the 10% that answered yes?


  • #10
    Mrmoe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,215 ✭✭✭Mrmoe


    BotFly wrote: »
    My mum is sexy tbf.

    And how!:D


  • #11
    bonerm
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    twinytwo wrote: »
    lol remindes me that gay dude who said everyone is born gay.. but that your parents turn you straight:rolleyes:

    Was this before or after he stuck his hand down your trousers?


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  • #12
    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    bonerm wrote: »
    Was this before or after he stuck his hand down your trousers?

    Just show us on the teddy............Point to where.........


  • #13
    Kimono-Girl
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    i know 'straight' girls who have kissed other girls....:confused:
    not so much with the guys! :p


  • #14
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    /hasty, flippant, macho joke


  • #15
    billythew
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11 ✭billythew


    I saw some research elsewhere that claimed that women are more likely to be bisexual because female sexuality is more complicated than male sexuality, and scientists are still working on understanding the dynamics of female sexuality fully.

    So with men, they are more likely to be either straight or homosexual, with a low percentage of either orientation bisexual. But women's sexuality works differently so women tend to be bisexual more than men do.

    That's what I read anyway.


  • #16
    Cianos
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    candlelover wrote: »
    i know 'straight' girls who have kissed other girls....:confused:

    aka attention seekers


  • #17
    orourkeda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,918 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z95n7j79Dw


  • #18
    strobe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,872 ✭✭✭strobe


    Yeah, hard to take most of this as reflective of reality. Unless you believe everyone tells the truth when they sign up to a dating site. :rolleyes:

    Easy to believe more straight women would answer "yes" to the question "have you ever had a sexual encounter with someone of the same sex?" as straight men would be more likely to find that a turn on. Where as with the reverse situation less women would be likely to find it a turn on if a man hooked up with another man. All irregardless of the actual truth of the situation.

    As for "how many sexual partners have you had" is a woman looking for a boyfriend on the site really going to admit to having 49 sexual partners? Or a man to having none? Not surprised in the slightest that 6 was the mean answer, it's always the safest lie.

    Apply the logic liberally to all questions covered. People lie about sex (and other things) on dating sites.


  • #19
    fergalr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,922 ✭✭✭fergalr


    strobe wrote: »
    Yeah, hard to take most of this as reflective of reality. Unless you believe everyone tells the truth when they sign up to a dating site. :rolleyes:

    Easy to believe more straight women would answer "yes" to the question "have you ever had a sexual encounter with someone of the same sex?" as straight men would be more likely to find that a turn on. Where as with the reverse situation less women would be likely to find it a turn on if a man hooked up with another man. All irregardless of the actual truth of the situation.

    As for "how many sexual partners have you had" is a woman looking for a boyfriend on the site really going to admit to having 49 sexual partners? Or a man to having none? Not surprised in the slightest that 6 was the mean answer, it's always the safest lie.

    Apply the logic liberally to all questions covered. People lie about sex (and other things) on dating sites.

    I wasn't familiar with the site; but after reading your post, I looked some stuff up, and came across this extended faq:
    http://www.okcupid.com/faaaq

    It seems that the answers to most of these questions are public; furthermore people get to specify what answers they would accept in potential matches - so there is probably a game here where it makes sense to keep your profile statistically close to the profile that the people you desire would desire.
    In which cases, the answers should be treated with caution.

    In addition to that, there would be a selection bias to the users that would use the website in the first place.

    Its open to debate how strong these biases would be. Ideally they should take another source of data from somewhere else and try and use that to establish the accuracy of their statistics.

    Still interesting stuff though!


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