Drawing on the widest survey of sexual behaviour since the Kinsey Report,David Spiegelhalter, in his book Sex By Numbers, or answers key questions about our private lives. Here he reveals how Kinsey’s contested claim that 10% of us are homosexual is actually close to the markFor a single statistic to be the primary propaganda weapon for a radical political movement is strange. Back in 1977,the US National homosexual Task Force (NGTF) was invited into the White House to meet President Jimmy Carter’s representatives – a first for homosexual and lesbian groups. The NGTF’s most prominent campaigning slogan was “we are everywhere”, backed up by the memorable statistical claim that one in 10 of the US population was homosexual – this figure was deeply and passionately contested. Related: homosexual Britain: what do the statistics say? Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com