This looks similar to my polycule diagram tbh
There are 6 people who’ve had gay sex that I could find and all but one of them are bi (or at least bi-curious). That seems like a statistical anomaly.
It’s a 90s high school, somewhat rural and religious, according to the article. Either there really were few homosexual relationships there, or the students didn’t want to reveal them.
You think?
I think people feel liberated to say they’re gay these days, so there are much more people claiming to be gay than in previous decades. On the other hand, there’s still a lot of homophobes and also quite some biphobes around, so there’s probably a lot of bi people that present as hetero or even gay.
I’d assume that most people are at least a little bi, and that they’ll try that out in high school even if they later decide they won’t pursue it.
Not long ago I saw a woman’s profile on tinder in NYC that said “No bi men”. I guess it’s good that she put her phobia right out front like that.
I’m a 90s kid, with a stepsister the same age (who grew up in a Massachusetts college town, at that). When I was in college, I dropped my then boyfriend’s ex’s name in a conversation with my dad and stepsister (he was out already and didn’t make a secret of anything, he was cool with it, I swear). My stepsister asked all shocked if I knew he was bi when we started dating and then explained that she’d never date a bi guy, because she could never “be sure”. My dad made a boomery joke and said something noncommittally biphobic.
I’m so grateful I had that conversation before I came out to my family. I’m bi and an afab egg. I just married a bi man, and I told him pretty early on that I don’t know what the situation with my gender is yet. His response was “that’s why we date bi people, we like all the situations,” which had never occurred to me (sometimes I’m dumb), but it was a perfect level of humor and acceptance for the moment.
I’m sorry, this was a super long and mostly irrelevant comment. I intended to agree that biphobia is present in the people and places you’d least expect, even when straight up homophobia isn’t (stepsister was a member of the gsa and loved pride parades)
The line does not necessarily mean they had sex.
I’m surprised to see that a few people have had 5 or 6 sexual partners while in high school.
Edit: missed the guy with 9!
Sexual or romantic partners.
I “dated” a classmate for a month at 14 until he wanted me to sit on his lap and I broke up with him because I felt like I’d be too heavy but didn’t want to admit that, so I didn’t know how to talk to him about it.
If you’d asked me at 14, if he was a romantic partner, on god I’d have said yes.
Damn I wanna know this guy’s secret!
I was just about to point that out!
They’re probably in touch with their emotions and express them in a healthy way and aren’t afraid of intimacy outside of sex and romantic relationships
Would have been pretty cool for me if my parents weren’t traumatized angry damaged people
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Surprisingly few gay relationships
It’s the midwest, so probably a lot in hiding
1993-1995 as well.
I am only seeing one!
Nah there’s two, one male one female
I was near certain you where sending me on a wild goose sit but unless anyone finds more you are correct.
For anyone who can’t find them… :D
And those are the few bisexuals. Because the gays… Well those are a complete graph basically.
There’s also two male students between 4 o’clock and 5 o’clock on the ring, but I don’t actually see the connecting line
It’s interesting that only one out of the lot of them was (at least within the last 6 months) gay. All the rest with same-sex relations were bisexual (at least within the last 6 months).
I might be explained by the fact that it’s a lot harder to find a partner if you are gay and most of them outsource their search
Probably more just that this was the 90s
It’s like the Where’s Waldo of gay sex.
Why is one ring of the fuckgraph shaped like a prolapsed anus?
If you mean top right, it seems like that’s the #1 pussy getter
Being the Midwest, that’s the quarterback for sure
A striking lack of single dots that should be hovering around these.
Would you consider that a romantic or sexual relation? Or both?
The lines are relations. The dots are people.
Yes, but the graphic is titled romantic and sexual relations. And as you deduced correctly, single dots are not relations.
Depends on which hand you use.
That paper is the scientific version of the old Tom Leherer song!
They need to make graphs of the social relationships of every major social group. For science
People in the comments straight out believing all of it are sex relationships… Read the paper, or at least the headline.
The one guy who got with 9 people… is he a liar or a rizzler?
I imagine they has to be confirmed from both sides…
They don’t.
There is not nearly as much gay sex on this chart as I would’ve guessed. Just the one bi girl hookup in the second from the right tree at the top. Actually is that a threesome or do you think they just all screwed at different points in time?
There’s a gay hookup on the branches just to the left, too.
Well it is a 20 year old study. Attitudes towards LGBT people were much less accepting back then. The participants in this study are now between the ages of 34-38 most likely. Probably a lot of people in the closet and keeping their relationships discreet or not having relationships, and some that haven’t realised that they’re gay yet.
If you did this study today, there would be a lot more gay sex, but probably less than we’d guess still. LGBT people are still a minority after all.
The relationships were from 1993-1995. Everyone in the graph is in their late 40s. So everything you said about attitudes is probably just more true.
I wonder how many lied
Did you do the first pic, fossilesque?
Nah, that was college lmao
