We likely will never know the “actual” numbers because it’s a moving target.
Homosexuality is thought to be linked to higher fecundity of all the female relatives. As birth rates decline, a slightly higher fecundity will drive an increase in observed homosexuality/bisexuality as a percentage of the population.
From a population genetics standpoint, the amount of homosexuality around is a puzzle. Because homosexual individuals have negative fitness (aka they don’t make many babies), they should be very rare if it’s genetically linked. There has to be a counter-benefit to the genetic family to maintain them in the population.
Why it’s important: If there is no counter-benefit, then homosexuality logically has no significant genetic component. It’s all environmentally influenced.
Original study proposing the concept in for homosexual mens families.
Good let people be happy.
Yeah, I wonder how long it will keep rising or what the “actual” numbers are in society if they face no discrimination.
We likely will never know the “actual” numbers because it’s a moving target.
Homosexuality is thought to be linked to higher fecundity of all the female relatives. As birth rates decline, a slightly higher fecundity will drive an increase in observed homosexuality/bisexuality as a percentage of the population.
Do you have any source for this? I have never heard about this before…
From a population genetics standpoint, the amount of homosexuality around is a puzzle. Because homosexual individuals have negative fitness (aka they don’t make many babies), they should be very rare if it’s genetically linked. There has to be a counter-benefit to the genetic family to maintain them in the population.
Why it’s important: If there is no counter-benefit, then homosexuality logically has no significant genetic component. It’s all environmentally influenced.
Original study proposing the concept in for homosexual mens families.
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1098/rspb.2004.2872
A few more recent ones discussing it.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12110-017-9309-8
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-007-9191-2
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1090513808000688
And the ladies.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12110-017-9309-8
are you just including the full lifestyle? or casual day passes?
I wouldn’t differentiate, just people that act on their same-sex attraction somehow I guess or admit they have the attraction.