Saturday, March 11, 2006
Our Newest Op Ed
10% of Americans are Gay -- Urban Myth Explored
- By Warner Todd Huston
We have all heard the well worn claim that "at least 10% of America is gay", haven't we? This 10% statistic has been used by gay advocacy groups for decades leaving Americans to imagine that up to 20 million of their fellows might be gay. But is this number a truism or propaganda from the gay lobby?
Origins
From whence did this 10% statistic come? In the 1940's and 1950's Alfred Kinsey did the field research for his widely touted series of reports on human sexual behavior, the Kinsey Reports. One of his "findings" was the famed 10% homosexual statistic supposedly realized by using his "Kinsey Scale" to measure sexual orientation.
Of course, when the reports were published in the 40's and 50's, they were quite controversial. After all it seemed to normalize and legitimize all manner of sexual practices. This can hardly be surprising when one realizes that Kinsey was known to advocate as well as participate in all manner of sexual practices himself, and it must be assumed that he was merely trying to legitimze his own actions with his research. This being as it may, his "research" is highly suspect for that and many other reasons........................
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- By Warner Todd Huston
We have all heard the well worn claim that "at least 10% of America is gay", haven't we? This 10% statistic has been used by gay advocacy groups for decades leaving Americans to imagine that up to 20 million of their fellows might be gay. But is this number a truism or propaganda from the gay lobby?
Origins
From whence did this 10% statistic come? In the 1940's and 1950's Alfred Kinsey did the field research for his widely touted series of reports on human sexual behavior, the Kinsey Reports. One of his "findings" was the famed 10% homosexual statistic supposedly realized by using his "Kinsey Scale" to measure sexual orientation.
Of course, when the reports were published in the 40's and 50's, they were quite controversial. After all it seemed to normalize and legitimize all manner of sexual practices. This can hardly be surprising when one realizes that Kinsey was known to advocate as well as participate in all manner of sexual practices himself, and it must be assumed that he was merely trying to legitimze his own actions with his research. This being as it may, his "research" is highly suspect for that and many other reasons........................
Click HERE To Read On
# posted by Publius @ 3/11/2006 01:18:00 AM 
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