43% of white male homosexuals have had sex with 500 or more partners. 28% have had 1000 or more sexual partners. A.P. Bell & M.S. Weinberg, Homosexuality: A Study of Diversity among Men and Women (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1978).
More modest results were found in “A Comparative Demographic and Sexual Profile of Older Homosexually Active Men” in The Journal of Sex Research 34 (1997). In this survey of 2583 homosexual men, “the modal range for number of sexual partners ever [of homosexual men] was 101-500.” Between 10.2 and 15.7 percent had more than 1000 lifetime sexual partners. Only 2.7 percent of older homosexual men report only one sexual partner in their lifetime.
Similar studies note that “few homosexual relationships last longer than two years, with many men reporting hundreds of lifetime partners” (M. Pollak, “Male Homosexuality,” Western Sexuality (1985). That “all [homosexual male] couples with a relationship lasting more than five years have incorporated some provision for outside sexual activity in their relationships” (D. P. McWhirter & A. M. Mattison, The Male Couple (1984).
The journal AIDS (17, 2003) found in a study among homosexual men in the Netherlands found that homosexual men without a “steady partner” acquired “casual partners” at a rate of 22 per year. Those with a “steady partner” acquired “casual partners” at a rate of 8 per year.
All of these rates are significantly higher than rates among heterosexuals. For example, The Social Organization of Sexuality (1994) showed that 75% of husbands never had sexual relations outside of marriage. While this rate of fidelity is still far from the ideal, it is of an entirely different order of fidelity compared to homosexual men, among whom fidelity is almost nonexistent.
Evidences can be multiplied.
– Mark L. Chance.
