Accounting for margin of error it may be more accurate to say there are roughly equal numbers of self-identified gay and bisexual men. Even still, this looks very little like the trend for women and would seem to go against the common idea of how people are distributed along the sexuality spectrum. Why do you guys think this might be?

Source is a Gallup poll from 2021. You can find their write up here: https://news.gallup.com/poll/389792/lgbt-identification-ticks-up.aspx

  • flipht@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Tons of straight men have had gay interactions.

    Many guys will find another man attractive but will not admit that to a third party, or often even themselves, so of those who are willing to identify themselves to the survey, they will tend to be the most comfortable. Those who aren’t comfortable will continue pretending to be entirely straight when asked.

    Bi stigma is a thing.

    And many bi guys tend to have more sex with men, just because it’s less time consuming and less personal interaction required to make it happen, so even if a man is willing to have sex with a women, they might just identify as gay because of the skew of their partners.