i know its probobly something clever but i cant figure it out.
i dont want to sound like an idiot but the only thing i could come up with is that 10% of the people in the world are homosexual. (unless you read kinsey)
I think it means that 10% of the material in the store was books. You know, it was more a sex shop, but because of the neighborhood-- it was under the guise of a bookstore...
shareI'm almost positive that it's because 10% of the population is GLBT.
shareI think this is correct. According to the famous study by Kinsey, he estimated that 10% of both the male and female populations were homosexual.
The name of the store certainly made for a clever line delivered by the mother that went something like, "So I hear you're working in a discount bookstore."
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Ten Percent Books, was a GLBT Bookshop.
It's because supposedly one out of every 10 people are gay...soooo...10% is for the fact that it's a GLBT bookshop
I'm pretty sure it's about 10% of the world population being gay...
sharei just googled it and it was kinsey who was misquoted as saying 10 percent of the general pop. is exclusively homosexual/same sex oriented
in psychology classes i've taken they estimate in the city/urban centres it is 4-5 percent and in rural/country areas probably about 2 percent
for me personally i'd say the estimates vary because homosexuals will converge in certain cities where it is very sympathetic, for example New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, or Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal in Canada, so the population will vary depending on the political climate
hope this helps
Anywhere between 1-3% of the population are exclusively homosexual, according to recent statistics. That whole "10% of the population" thing is totally incorrect.
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It counts as LGBT, meaning it's a broader scope than just gay/lesbian.
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No, when people quote the 10% figure, they are talking about homosexuals.
"LGBT" includes bisexuals, and if they were including bisexuals, then it would be the majority of the population, not a mere 10%.
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Balderdash. Most of the population is heterosexual. There is a small percentage of homosexual suggesting about 5%,and even lesser bisexual. Among those groups, sometimes it's hard to discriminate, because it overlaps as some change their behavior as their life goes on. Our minds aren't carved in stone; things can change. But the vast majority of romantic and sexual activity in a free society is heterosexual, even my gay friends agree to that fact. LGBT folks always overestimate their numbers; it's a simply well known mechanism of the mind that wants to believe that other people are similar to yourself. Observation of the population tells you otherwise if you are able to view it scientifically, without the tendency to guess based on what you want to see. Those who 'try' homosexual sex during say, teen experimental sessions, are not gay or bisexual unless they continue that behavior through their life. Want to know your sexual identity? Easy; who to you look at (with lustful thoughts) when you walk down the beach; males of females? Overwhelmingly the population will choose one or another.
sharePeople self-censor their sexuality all the time.
In case you're not aware, a sexual category such as, in this case bisexuality, can refer not just to how someone identifies socially, but also to their behaviour and, perhaps most accurately of all, also their attractions.
So, in your example, most bisexual men (who are the majority) wouldn't look at a guy they might fancy, because they wouldn't want other people to think them gay. Men are taught to focus on women sexually, rather than just simply feeling whichever attractions come naturally, which would be much healthier for the men that boys grow up to be, as well as for women, who are also victimised by this forced sexualisation of men, which turns men into predatory, insecure self-hating, damaged individuals with "something to prove" for the rest of their lives.
Also, in case you didn't read further up this list, I was stating that 10% was an overstatement of the number of homosexuals in society. A more accurate number appears to be anywhere between 1.5 to 3 percent of the population. Bisexuality, on the other hand, is the majority sexuality, only we are taught to self-censor our sexuality to try to fit the current ideal of heterosexuality... And I say current, because heterosexuality hasn't always been the ideal.
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hear hear, yes.
Until we reach a time when sexuality is free as in speech, counting what's what is next to impossible. It's a minefield of subconscious self-censorship.
I would shake the hand of any sociologist who could successfully craft a study to find a way through that psychological mess.
Recent studies aren't reliable so using them as a measuring stick is foolish.
shareYou can't say that for sure. There are a lot of closets out there....
shareYes, of course there are a lot of people who are living in a lot of different closets in our society, I certainly don't disagree with you about that, but the oft-quoted figure of 10% is a complete (and often willful) misrepresentation of Alfred Kinsey's research - that is my point. Kinsey *never* said that "10% of the population is gay/homosexual", and yet everyone goes about parroting the same quotation, over and over again... It's the sexuality equivalent of "play it again, Sam". :P
People repeat it for good reasons - to persuade people not to be homophobic, but it's based on a false premise, because he never said that, and yet the quotation is probably as well-known as Kinsey himself is.
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