Accounting for margin of error it may be more accurate to say there are roughly equal numbers of self-identified gay and bisexual men. Even still, this looks very little like the trend for women and would seem to go against the common idea of how people are distributed along the sexuality spectrum. Why do you guys think this might be?

Source is a Gallup poll from 2021. You can find their write up here: https://news.gallup.com/poll/389792/lgbt-identification-ticks-up.aspx

  • usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    I think there’s a perception that the barrier for a man to be attracted to other men is higher than that for women with women, so a woman could be bi but a man must be mostly gay to be into guys at all.

    That seems to be changing though I think judging by all the “femboy” type memes that have grown in polarity. Obviously not quite the same, but seem to show a cultural shift regardless on men being attracted to men (even if the more “acceptable” version is men attracted to men displaying typically feminine traits).