typical conservative Christian misinformation presented for people to lazy to do any sort of fact checking
anti-gay Christian groups love to claim that gays and lesbians have huge numbers of sexual partners. The numbers of sexual partners these groups claim gays and lesbians have can stretch into the thousands. There are even claims of gay men having more than 10,000 sexual partners in a life time. A ridiculous number no matter how you slice it. Consider if we accept the anti-gay lie that homosexuals have a life expectancy of 42 years is true that means over the course of their adult lives gay men would have to have a minimum of three sexual partners per day, every day, weekends and holiday’s included.
Your advindicate article referenced Bell and Weinberg
"forty-three percent (43%) of white male homosexuals had had sex with 500 or more partners, and twenty-eight percent (28%) had had sex with 1,000 or more partners. Seventy-nine percent (79%) said that more than half of their sexual partners had been strangers." A. P. Bell and M. S. Weinberg, Homosexualities: A Study of Diversity Among Men and Women 1978
wow those gays are really promiscuous. lets compare this with the numbers of sexual partners, the control sample, of heterosexuals that Bell and Weinberg collected.
there are no statistics for heterosexuals collected at the same time, place and manner.
For all we know the heterosexual sample may have had a greater number of sexual partners than the homosexual sample. Without this control group, we cannot generalize their sample to the population at large, because we do not know that their population represents national norms since we have no heterosexual control group. It is possible that the heterosexual statistics were equally high, and could have shown that the data does not represent promiscuity specifically among gays
If you are going to say homosexuals are more promiscuous than heterosexuals then you have to directly compare the two groups.
In their 1997 study of the sexual profiles of 2,583 older homosexuals published in the Journal of Sex Research, Paul Van de Ven, et al., found that “the modal range for number of sexual partners was 101-500.” In addition, 10.2 percent to 15.7 percent had between 501 and 1,000 partners. A further 10.2 percent to 15.7 percent reported having had more than one thousand lifetime sexual partners. Paul Van de Ven et al., "A Comparative Demographic and Sexual Profile of Older Homosexually Active Men," Journal of Sex Research 34
this one is a well known fabrication. It seems to have been made up by John Diggs in his "The health risks of gay sex"
the numbers mentioned above appear nowhere in the Van de Ven paper. looking at the number of lifetime sexual partners for older gay men Van de Ven published we read:
: “… men had either 1 (28.5%)or between 2-5 (44.9%) partners and (23.9%) had had between 5 and 10 partners ever.” P. Vande Ven A Comparative DSemographic and Sexual Profile of older homosexually active Men. Journal of Sex Research 1997 Vol. 34, No. 4, pp. 349-360
Meaning that 97.3% of the respondents had less than 10 lifetime sexual partners.
Being in a so-called “committed relationship” clearly does not reduce gay male promiscuity, and it is now becoming clear that it does not reduce the transmission of AIDS. A study of homosexual relationships in Amsterdam found that steady partners contribute more than casual partners to HIV infection, because gays tended to engage in risky behavior (unprotected anal intercourse) more often with steady partners than with casual partners.
Maria Xiridou, et al, "The Contribution of Steady and Casual Partnerships to the Incidence of HIV Infection among Homosexual Men in Amsterdam," AIDS 17 (2003): 1031.
I just knew this one would be included.
Your leaves out the fact that the research conducted by Dr. Xiridou was about promiscuous gay men. Any gay men in a monogamous relationship were
excluded from her study.
If gays are so horrible and so promiscuous why do Christian groups have to continually present false information about them?