Answer to Question #238975 in General Chemistry for RobertZes

Question

[url=https://bear-magazine.com/gay-dating-long-term-relationship/]Gay dating long term relationship[/url]

Answer 1

In a California study based on a 2003 random sample telephone survey, 37%-46% of gay men compared to 51%-62% of lesbians and 62% of heterosexuals were found to be engaged in cohabitation if some kind.[1] In a 2011 study by The Williams Institute of US States that provide marriage demographic statistics,[2] a number of findings on legalized homosexal relationships were published, including:

• Same sex couples seek to marry at about the same rate as heterosexual couples.
• 62% of same sex couples who entered into a formally recognised relationship were female.
• The average annual dissolution rate was about 1% for homosexual couples versus 2% for heterosexual couples, but about 50% for both over time.

The 1998 Partners National study of Gay and Lesbian Couples [3] had a number of findings, including:

• The average length of previous relationships in years was 4.2 for men vs. 6.3 for women.
• 91% of women and 68% of men were in relationships where they agreed to be monogamous, while 90% of women and 63% of men had never broken their sexual agreement.
• The average number of sexual encounters with their partners per month was 7.1 for women and 10.1 for men.
• 54% of women and 34% of men rated the quality of the sex with their partner excellent.

Other articles and studies that I found that tried to address the issue were suspect because they were clearly written by people with a conservative political agenda of protecting family values or they were not based on full population data, for example, HIV/AIDS studies.