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Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 12:06:48 EDT
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Here are numbers that come from a study of a couple of thousand swedes, with
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no reference to sexual preference that I could find. The point would seem to
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be that (1) sexual activity follows a power curve, with a few people, a la
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Wilt Chamberlain, having an extaordinarily large number of sexual contacts,
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ev en in a short period of time and (2) a tendency for men to have more
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partners than women. I have no idea, being a statistical ignoramus, whether
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the fact that there seem to be more men than women at the extremely
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promiscuous end of the sex-partners-distribution curve means that you'd get
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even more extreme results in a group of men who chiefly have sex with other
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men.
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http://polymer.bu.edu/~amaral/Sex_partners/Content_sex.html
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<<For example, the mean number of partners since sexual initiation for women
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is approximately 7 and in a sample of less than 1500 Swedish women we find an
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individual with 100 partners. For men, the mean is approximately 15 and we
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find an individual with 800 partners, which is almost 50 times larger than
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the mean! So, somehow Don Juan was not such an extraordinary case but just
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one data point in a wide spectrum of behaviors that can be observed. >>
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As for gay men: There is indeed anecdotal evidence of cases of extreme
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promiscuity among gay men. You can read about it in Randy Schiltz's And the
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Band Played On. He writes about bathhouse culture pre-HIV; he also discusses
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how, in the gay politics of the time, there was a sub-culture of what you
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might call radical gay men who argued (and acted on the argument) that having
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many partners was an essential part of what being gay actually was. It was an
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explicitly political statement: monogamy is an artifact of straight culture.
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That view seems to have died, in more ways than one. Part of the point of
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Schiltz's book was to condemn the role that it and bathhouse culture played
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in spreading the AIDs epidemic that eventually killed Schiltz, among so many
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others. This doesn't let Eugen off the hook--but it is accurate to say that
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there was a cult of promiscuity that was particular to the gay community.
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Tom
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