by Dimitri Davis

Created on: June 01, 2008   Last Updated: January 19, 2009

Throughout my experience as a person, student, activist, and employee, I've found that, more or less, homosexuals are just the same as heterosexuals. Or, to put it another way, people are simply people, regardless of their beliefs and actions. Simple, I know, and the research backs it up.

Every person's particular views, feelings, and beliefs about their sex lives and the sex lives of others are unique. Poll one hundred people and you'll get one hundred unique responses (or more) regarding their personal views on sex. Sex, like other significant things in life, simply varies. Men don't simply want it more just as women don't simply want it less. The trends are not that broad. Certain criteria tend to produce certain inclinations, but still, it's more of a tendency than a rule. Age, career, recreation, parents, culture, milieu, all of these factors and many more affect one's views on everything. Including sex.

Regarding whether or not gay people follow a trend of increased sexual emphasis, the researched answer is simply that there is no such trend, as evidenced by many, many reports, such as that of Allen Young and Karla Jay. Homosexuals place no more or less emphasis on sex than heterosexuals. Homosexuality does not produce a statistically significant effect upon personal emphasis on sex.

Many factors do, of course, but these factors are not consistent among homosexual people any more than heterosexual people. Sexual preference makes no difference when it comes to sexual activity. I've seen straight guys go serially through short-term, monogamous relationships and gay guys stay with one partner for years at a time. I've seen straight guys avoid sex and relationships for years while gay guys enjoyed it frequently with the same partner exclusively. In the end, it didn't matter that they were homosexual or heterosexual. Other factors did. The stereotypes promulgated by the media are just that: stereotypes. They are no more generally accurate than any other, and are glaringly wrong in most cases.

Each person, regardless of sexual preference, will decide how important sex is to them on their own factors. Trends that dominate in one setting can be all but absent in another, and the factors involved are more numerous and typically more hidden than any casual observer will see. Homosexuality is about as statistically significant in determining sexual emphasis as liking coke, orange wallpaper, and sunsets.

In truth, after reviewing the research, homosexuality is revealed to have no significant impact on many, many activities in life. If not most. Regardless of sexual preference, people are still people. Though discrimination will certainly affect them.

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