Depends on which statistik you look at and for which countries. To arrive at 20:1, I calculated with 5% of people being “mostly homosexual”, which means that about 2.5% of the population is “mostly homosexual” men and about 45% is “mostly heterosexual” women. Admittedly, this is likely on the high side for homosexuality, but there is a lot of variation in statistics on the topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_sexual_orientation.
Either way, I picked a high number für homosexuality because even if we assume that there are a lot of gay men, the ratio is still extremely high - it’s rather unlikely that the average gay man sucks dick 20 times more often than the average straight women.
I think the largest reason for lower reports is social pressure and the flexibility applied when being unhappy with your own orientation due to that pressure “I am not gay. I just like to experiment!” I believe that this partly causes the relatively large amount of “not completely straight” people in more precise studies.
Anyway, this is a lot of guess work. Mainly I had this presumption, because a gay man I know stated “I can ask 10 men on the street and one will join me” and given that it sounded like he tried it a few times, I do believe him. So my starting position is highly anecdotal and not very scientific.
more like 50:1
Depends on which statistik you look at and for which countries. To arrive at 20:1, I calculated with 5% of people being “mostly homosexual”, which means that about 2.5% of the population is “mostly homosexual” men and about 45% is “mostly heterosexual” women. Admittedly, this is likely on the high side for homosexuality, but there is a lot of variation in statistics on the topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_sexual_orientation.
Either way, I picked a high number für homosexuality because even if we assume that there are a lot of gay men, the ratio is still extremely high - it’s rather unlikely that the average gay man sucks dick 20 times more often than the average straight women.
more like 7% so >=15:1
Canadian Health Survey self-reported gay as 1% in 2003 to 1.7% in 2014. Bisexuality was 0.7% in 2003 and had doubled by 2014.
I think the largest reason for lower reports is social pressure and the flexibility applied when being unhappy with your own orientation due to that pressure “I am not gay. I just like to experiment!” I believe that this partly causes the relatively large amount of “not completely straight” people in more precise studies.
Anyway, this is a lot of guess work. Mainly I had this presumption, because a gay man I know stated “I can ask 10 men on the street and one will join me” and given that it sounded like he tried it a few times, I do believe him. So my starting position is highly anecdotal and not very scientific.