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These Results summarise responses for Women about Themselves, and from Men about their Women
Pass the cursor over the chart and you will get the responses approximately 1 year earlier. What is interesting is that we are now receiving more and more responses from gay women in marriage, and with that more of the issues that they are experiencing. We are also receiving more of the experiences of straight men with wives who are gay or bisexual. Never the less the responses received from gay women in marriage and their husbands very much less than their male and female equivalents. If you have not already filled in your Questionnaire, it is not too late! Just go to the Questionnaire entry pages - see the top of this page. The questionnaires are open to all men and all women regardless of sexuality. The responses are directed towards knowledge of both the male and the female. Reviewing the results up to 8th February 2008, there were 66 women at a rating of 3 out of the 390 who declared their Kinsey number (17%). There were 12 men out of 119 who declared their wife's/partner's rating at 3 (10%).
Where are they from? Before anyone panics, we have no means of knowing who people are who have contributed to the questionnaires, but we do have an indication of their approximate whereabouts in the world in some cases. These have been presented as percentages of the total (233) for women about themselves (as of 22nd June 2007) and of the total (85) for men about their women:
All contributions have been listed. It can be seen from the above that at least two thirds are the contributors are from the United States, followed by the United Kingdom, Canada and Ireland / Australia. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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There is limited discussion at the present time - this will be developed when a significant number of responses has been received |
Women's responses about Themselves | Men's responses about their Women | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Where results have been broken down into individual Kinsey numbers, some caution is needed as we are still a long way from having significant numbers under each Kinsey number. Feelings / emotions have yet to be reviewed. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The shortage of men responding to questionnaires about their wives is significant as the questionnaires on Women about themselves, and on Men about their Women were started at the same time. The Men's responses amount to a third of those received from Women. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Declared by 268 women |
Declared by 90 men |
Declared by 87 men | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This chart shows the age ranges graphically. The age range to have the greatest number of responses from women is that from 30 - 39 years, whereas from women, it is that from 40 - 49. The number of responses from men is less significant than the number from women. Nevertheless, speculating, this may be because 30 - 49 years is the period when problems in many marriages start to come to the surface, 10 to 20 years after the start of a marriage. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Women's responses:
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As might be expected, the largest group represented here is that which is married. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Women's responses (out of 273 responses):
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The majority of men and women who have responded so far have married for love, with "best friend" coming second. A greater percentage of men married for love than women. A greater percentage of men married their best friend, than women. 17% of men and 16% of women married because they did not want to be alone. About 2% of women wanted to hide their sexuality. The following Chart shows the women's reasons for marrying, percentages split according to Kinsey number:
No previous chart Although the numbers of responses populating each Kinsey number are more significant than they were, and although Kinsey 6 is probably the least significant with 7 responses, some trends are nevertheless in evidence.
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The following Chart shows the men's reasons for marrying, percentages split according to their wives' Kinsey number now:
No previous chart Other than for Kinsey 0, results here are based on relatively low numbers and therefore the commentary below has to be read with caution.
Just as with the questionnaires relating to men talking about themselves (and women talking about their men), an overview of the reasons why the women and men here have married, regardless of the woman's sexuality, suggests that "Love" is the most significant ingredient in marriage. "Best friend" features second, but is significantly less. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Results on extra-marital activity will be provided here in due course.
Worthy of review is a comparison of Sexual Preferences and Kinsey Numbers. The results represented by the diagram below were as recorded up to October 27th 2007, and are based on the responses of133 women who had had extra-marital activity.
In theory, it might be expected that Kinsey 0 women would have a sexual preference for men, no women. Correspondingly, it might be expected that Kinsey 6 women would have a sexual preference for women, no men, and that Kinsey 3 women would have an equal preference for men and women. This is not shown to be the case if we review the diagram above. The peak preference for men and women equally appears to be around Kinsey 2, not Kinsey 3, and over the full range Kinsey 0 to 6, some women claimed "men only" while over the same range Kinsey 0 to 6, some women claimed "women only". The apparent out of balance of men with equal preference (Kinsey 2 as opposed to Kinsey 3) could suggest that women's views on their sexuality differ from their true sexuality i.e. they are more homosexual than they would care to admit. With only 133 responses so far, many of the results may not be considered "significant", the minimum number of responses for "significance" being over 200. It is hoped, with more responses in the future, the results will become more meaningful.
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Pass the cursor over the chart and you will get the responses approximately one year earlier. During February 2006, an additional question was asked of the men, "Extra-maritally, do you practice safe sex?". The question was deliberately vague, so as to avoid exploring the precise meaning of "Safe Sex", which is subject to debate. It could be argued that there is no such thing as "Safe Sex" other than total abstinence. We were looking here for the person's intent. Of the 184 responses received as of 8th February 2008 (several did not respond to the question), the break down was as follows:
These results suggest that only 45% of the women responding to this questionnaire do, in their opinion, always practice "safe sex". Therefore, it should be assumed that 55% are not to be considered safe. The implication is that no husband should consider himself safe if he continues to be intimate with his wife, knowing or suspecting that she is participating in extra-marital sex. Under such circumstances, both partners should be having themselves tested for sexually transmitted diseases on a regular basis. |
I will undertake further analysis of the results with time. For the full responses: |