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Some may know of the infamous forums, which have, among other things, a raging debate concerning homosexual unions/marriage/whatever. (Persoanlly I'm happy with unions because marriage has religious connotations and I don't want to force people's religion - BUT I've heard good arguments against 'seperate but equal' phrasing this would cause - and that churches can already refuse to recognise any marriage they want.
However, one of these posters - apparently trying to convince us that civil unions are a bad thing has raised (among others) these little gems:
Homosexuals have lied - they only make up 1% at most of the population (of course this fact is proved by... well, him saying it apparently, and I fail to see how it matters - after all a minority's rights aren't dependant on them being a certain percentage of the populace).
Second: Homosexuals are inherently promiscuous - most gay young men have at least 250 seperate sexual partners. (his source was... well a radio programme. And I'd think this is an argument FOR civil unions, right? Monogampous relationships.)
Now lets put these together.
Only 1% of the population is gay. Every gay male has at least 250 partners. Exactly how is this gay male to meet 250 partners? Let's have a look...
Of that 1% we have to discount lesbians, the deeply closeted, atypical (the monogamous, celibate, really hates clubbing), the very old and the very young. So let's discount half of that 1% as being unsuitable partners for said young man (being very kind, since the lesbians alone would make up that).
So, said young man has 0.5% of a given population within which to accumulate his 250(+) partners.
In other words he needs a MINIMUM population of 50,000 people and even then he has to meet and have sex with EVERY other sexually active gay male within that population. Remember this applies to the vast majority of gay men apparently
We assume people in rural areas travel a great deal.
However, one of these posters - apparently trying to convince us that civil unions are a bad thing has raised (among others) these little gems:
Homosexuals have lied - they only make up 1% at most of the population (of course this fact is proved by... well, him saying it apparently, and I fail to see how it matters - after all a minority's rights aren't dependant on them being a certain percentage of the populace).
Second: Homosexuals are inherently promiscuous - most gay young men have at least 250 seperate sexual partners. (his source was... well a radio programme. And I'd think this is an argument FOR civil unions, right? Monogampous relationships.)
Now lets put these together.
Only 1% of the population is gay. Every gay male has at least 250 partners. Exactly how is this gay male to meet 250 partners? Let's have a look...
Of that 1% we have to discount lesbians, the deeply closeted, atypical (the monogamous, celibate, really hates clubbing), the very old and the very young. So let's discount half of that 1% as being unsuitable partners for said young man (being very kind, since the lesbians alone would make up that).
So, said young man has 0.5% of a given population within which to accumulate his 250(+) partners.
In other words he needs a MINIMUM population of 50,000 people and even then he has to meet and have sex with EVERY other sexually active gay male within that population. Remember this applies to the vast majority of gay men apparently
We assume people in rural areas travel a great deal.