Comment by aidenn0
3 days ago
In the 1940s, Kinsey et. al. found that 37% of Adult Males had at least one homosexual experience, and 10% were "more or less exclusively homosexual for at least 3 years."
The numbers for women were much lower, but 30% doesn't seem crazy high if you consider the reduced stigma of the bisexual label would allow people who are primarily heterosexual, but are open to homosexual experiences to label themselves as bi.
Kinsey's work was poor quality and suffered from irreconcilable volunteer bias. It was completely based on people willing to be interviewed, in excessive detail and in his uniquely invasive 1 on 1 fashion, about their most intimate sexual experiences. Even today that is not something which 'normal' people agree to, and this was done during the 40s and 50s! On top of that he made 0 effort whatsoever to obtain a representative sample of society, so it's a biased sample of a biased sample, which drives an exponential deviation from reality due to multiplicative biasing.
This is where you get his conclusions such as 37% of men having had a homosexual experience, or 69% of men having purchased a prostitute. It's plainly ridiculous.