Perfect (yet dated) Stats

Some of the results founded from 37752 people, including equals halves of men and women - 18876. The questionnaire was split into 2, first part conducted face-to-face about sexual attraction and the second was a confidential booklet focused on sexual experience.

SUMMARY:

Men have more homosexual experiences than women, or are more entailed to be open about them. 6.1% of men have had a homosexual experience in comparison to 3.4% women; Genital contact was 3.6% for men and 1.7% of women and 1.4% of men have had a same-sex partner in the last 2 years in comparison to 0.6% of women.

To me this is quite shocking, I've always imagined women to be more open, especially about this subject than men are, though the men I have met who are open about their sexuality really couldn't care who knows what.

Apparently 9:1 (Male:Female) 16-24 year olds are willing to admit their experiences. 8:1 25-34 year olds. 3:1 35-44 year olds and 5:1 45-49 year olds. Which is great information to help me decipher an audience I can target my project to. It would seem 16-34 year olds are more open and willing to admit and accept experiences and attraction, maybe this comes with generation differences or maybe the older males have commited into heterosexual relationships as many used to and are unwilling to admit anything that differs other peoples thoughts on them. Maybe?

London is the region with the most same sex behavior suspected from cities being more accepting and easier to hide in. Also referred to as "Gay Ghettos" were a community can come together.

One lot of statistics that actually shocked me was the amount of same-sex experiences that came as a result of boarding school education. It almost doubled and in some cases tripled the percentage of same-sex experience, more male than female as before. This was referred to as "facultative homosexuality" which meant that because boys and girls were segregated and place together the opportunity (mainly through puberty I'd imagine) was larger.


Kaye Wellings, Julia Field, Anne M. Johnson, Jane Wadsworth. Sexual Behaviour In Britain - 1994. Penguin Books. England.