I was doing some quick research before posting my last comment which mentioned (briefly) the physical dangers of the homosexual lifestyle. I’ve heard these numbers before in passing but they are worth sharing here for a few reasons. First, it is pertinent to the past few blogs relating to Prop 8 being overturned by Gay Judge Vaughn Walker. Second, this data has relevant apologetic value for combating the media’s (and many pro-gay advocate’s) portrayal of the need for same-sex marriage.

The quote below is part of a pdf which goes into some pretty ugly statistics about the less told side of homosexual sex. There is a lot about the physical damage and the bacteria, viruses, STDs, etc (79 footnotes in 14 pages, not bad).  This snippet below focuses on the number of sexual partners that homosexuals typically have. To break it down, if you have 33 homosexual friends who have been gay/lesbian for awhile, statistically speaking only one of them has been monogamous (with one partner). 7 of those 33 will have between 100 to 500 sexual partners in their lifetime.

Baring a complete re-definition of marriage (which is what many, including myself, are convinced is taking place) this data suggests that the popular view of a monogamous same-sex marriage is absurd from a homosexual perspective. Of the homosexual populace, less than 3 percent even act monogamous. But so many more have been pushing for the right to marry. After reading these statistics, such a push seems inconsistent.

Read the following and ask yourself if this seems like a group of people who are able to stay in life-long, committed relationships.

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Studies indicate that the average male homosexual has hundreds of sex partners in his lifetime:

• A.P. Bell and M.S. Weinberg, in their classic study of male and female homosexuality, found that 43 percent of white male homosexuals had sex with 500 or more partners, with 28 percent having 1,000 or more sex partners.[9]
• In their study of the sexual profiles of 2,583 older homosexuals published in Journal of Sex Research, Paul Van de Ven et al., found that only 2.7 percent claimed to have had sex with one partner only. The most common response, given by 21.6 percent of the respondents, was of having a hundred-one to five hundred lifetime sex partners.[10]
• A survey conducted by the homosexual magazine Genre found that 24 percent of the respondents said they had had more than a hundred sexual partners in their lifetime. The magazine noted that several respondents suggested including a category of those who had more than a thousand sexual partners.[11]
• In his study of male homosexuality in Western Sexuality: Practice and Precept in Past and Present Times, M. Pollak found that “few homosexual relationships last longer than two years, with many men reporting hundreds of lifetime partners.”[12]

Promiscuity among Homosexual Couples. Even in those homosexual relationships in which the partners consider themselves to be in a committed relationship, the meaning of “committed” typically means something radically different from marriage.

• In The Male Couple, authors David P. McWhirter and Andrew M. Mattison reported that in a study of a hundred-fifty-six males in homosexual relationships lasting from one to thirty-seven years,
  • Only seven couples have a totally exclusive sexual relationship, and these men all have been together for less than five years. Stated another way, all couples with a relationship lasting more than five years have incorporated some provision for outside sexual activity in their relationships.[13]
• In Male and Female Homosexuality, M. Saghir and E. Robins found that the average male homosexual live-in relationship lasts between two and three years.[14]

Footnotes

9. A. P. Bell and M. S. Weinberg, Homosexualities: A Study of Diversity Among Men and Women (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1978), pp. 308, 9; see also Bell, Weinberg and Hammersmith, Sexual Preference (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1981).
10. Paul Van de Ven et al., “A Comparative Demographic and Sexual Profile of Older Homosexually Active Men,” Journal of Sex Research 34 (1997): 354. Dr. Paul Van de Ven reiterated these results in a private conversation with Dr. Robert Gagnon on September 7, 2000.
11. “Survey Finds 40 percent of Gay Men Have Had More Than 40 Sex Partners,” Lambda Report, January/February 1998, p. 20.
12. M. Pollak, “Male Homosexuality,” in Western Sexuality: Practice and Precept in Past and Present Times, edited by P. Aries and A. Bejin, pp. 40-61, cited by Joseph Nicolosi in Reparative Therapy of Male Homosexuality (Northvale, New Jersey: Jason Aronson Inc., 1991), pp. 124, 25.
13. David P. McWhirter and Andrew M. Mattison, The Male Couple: How Relationships Develop (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1984), pp. 252, 3.
14. M. Saghir and E. Robins, Male and Female Homosexuality (Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins, 1973), p. 225; L.A. Peplau and H. Amaro, “Understanding Lesbian Relationships,” in Homosexuality: Social, Psychological, and Biological Issues, edited by J. Weinrich and W. Paul (Beverly Hills: Sage, 1982).