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Originally Posted by Pandoren
My first thought is whether the statistics say, for example, 8 out of 10 acts of extreme violence are committed by heterosexual men or, again for example, 34% of homosexual and 67% of heterosexual men have committed a violent crime.
With the former, it stands to reason that more violence is committed by heterosexuals since they are a majority. With the latter, that shows a clear difference in proportional violence between the two groups.
My second thought is- I wonder how bisexual men fit into this?
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Actually it is considered conventional wisdom that gays are less violent than straight people. It is also conventional scientific wisdom that gay males are more promiscous than straight men, straight women, and lesbians. What I find dichtomous about this discussion about gender and sexual orientation is that experts claim that gay men are adopting the conventional hetero-sexual male paradigm in their sexual behavior.
However, in the straight world experts keep pointing to
testosterone as the smoking gun evidence to claimed disparate sex drives between straight men and women. The claimed biological theory posits that straight men have more testosterone, therefore they are stronger, more aggressive and possess higher sex drives than women. Yet, gay males and straight males have are reported to have the
same level of testosterone but gay males are considered to have substantially
higher sex drives than straight men.
