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High school sexual networks
Interesting article from LiveScience.com, about some researchers who investigated networks of sex and relationships at US high schools, and discovered that they're fascinatingly different from adult networks.
But there's something else they don't mention - if I'm reading that diagram right, then out of over 800 students over 18 months, there was only one gay relationship! Whether it's due to under-reporting or active repression, I think that's worth mentioning - statistically, you'd expect about 80 students to be gay/bi/whatever, IIRC...
[Edit: I wasn't reading it correctly - there were actually three. Still, that's still rather less than I'd expect... And I note that one of the guys who's connected to another guy is also connected to six girls - in denial, or just rapacious, I wonder? And the two connected girls share a boyfriend :-)]
But there's something else they don't mention - if I'm reading that diagram right, then out of over 800 students over 18 months, there was only one gay relationship! Whether it's due to under-reporting or active repression, I think that's worth mentioning - statistically, you'd expect about 80 students to be gay/bi/whatever, IIRC...
[Edit: I wasn't reading it correctly - there were actually three. Still, that's still rather less than I'd expect... And I note that one of the guys who's connected to another guy is also connected to six girls - in denial, or just rapacious, I wonder? And the two connected girls share a boyfriend :-)]