The NYT is trying to fill Nate Silver's slot with Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, who today crunches search data to conclude five percent of U.S. men are "predominantly attracted" to men. By coincidence, roughly five percent of porn searches in all states are for m2m, contradicting a notion that gay men flock to blue hubs. There's also this:
"In the United States, of all Google searches that begin “Is my husband…,” the most common word to follow is “gay.” “Gay” is 10 percent more common in such searches than the second-place word, “cheating.” It is 8 times more common than “an alcoholic” and 10 times more common than “depressed.” The states with the highest percentage of women asking this question are South Carolina and Louisiana. In fact, in 21 of the 25 states where this question is most frequently asked, support for gay marriage is lower than the national average."
Queerty summarizes Stephens-Davidowitz's other findings:
* Millions of gay men are still in the closet to some degree; one-tenth of gay men say they haven’t come out to most of the important people in their lives.
* More than one quarter of gay men hide their sexuality from anonymous surveys; about 3.6 percent of American men tell anonymous surveys they are attracted to men.
* While some gays move out of less tolerant states, the openly gay population of those states would only be about 0.1 percent higher if they stayed.
* Among the states with the highest percentages of Craigslist ads for males looking for “casual encounters” are Kentucky, Louisiana and Alabama.
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