How prevalent is homosexuality and bisexuality?
There is a high probability that people already know or will encounter gay, lesbian, and bisexual people either in their own families or among friends. About ten percent of the population. There is no way for you to know who is gay, lesbian, or bisexual by looking. In the 1940s and 1950s, however, Dr. Kinsey and his associates conducted two studies on the sexual attitudes and behaviours of people in the United States, the first about men and the second about women. These studies revealed a much greater incidence of homosexual behaviour than had been previously acknowledged. Kinsey developed a seven-point scale based on the degree of sexual responsiveness people have to members of the same and the other sex. These categories are based on both biological reactions and overt experience, not on sexual identity: exclusively heterosexual predominantly heterosexual, incidentally homosexual predominantly heterosexual, but more than incidentally homosexual equally heterosexual and homosexual pr