Heat Map
 

When I first saw this "Heat Map" I'm thinking this is bullshit, how could they ever determine that with any kind of accuracy? What are they mind readers?

http://cellar.org/2011/HeatMap.jpg

So looking at the source it's OKtrends which is "Dating Research from OkCupid". Now I don't know how seriously I can take OKcupid for reliable information. They do have millions (really) of data points, maybe half are from tracking customers, but the rest are from what people tell them on questionnaires. Are people "lookin' for love" likely to be honest on a dating site? Who knows, but what they came up with for comparisons between the traits and habits of straights vs queers is pretty interesting.

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I think it's worth reading.

Well, admittedly, I did not go to the site. However I disagree with it already.

No. No they don't.:headshake

[Chef]You see, children, if you're a man, and you fuck another man in the ass occasionally, you are bi-sexual, i.e. not straight. If you fuck men in the ass exclusively, you are gay, i.e. not straight. If you are a woman, and suck pussy occasionally, you are bi-sexual, i.e. not straight. If you suck pussy exclusively, you are gay, i.e. not straight.[/Chef]

If you are a man and you enjoy sex with a female partner exclusively, then you are straight.

If you are a woman and you enjoy sex with a male partner exclusively, then you are straight.

I hope this clears up any confusion.

Shitstorm starts in 3...2...1

Judging by the three shades in WA and OR, I'd say it is just the opposite,
or it's a inverse correlation with population density.

After all, it does get lonely out there on those ranches or up in the hills
during those long winter nights ! :rolleyes:

*sigh* You didn't fully read the post/chart or are misunderstanding it. This is a measure or homosexual curiosity, being curious about the same sex and deciding to test it, does not make a person gay or even bi. I don't think that OKCupid is using the Kinsey scale, probably because it can be complicated and confusing. Instead they are probably removing the clearly bisexual from the mix and only looking at the people who seem to prefer straight sex, that does not mean they don't have their little adventures. So if their subjects lean more towards the straight or gay spectrum, the are just rounded off to that side. I know plenty of people who consider themselves straight but have had homosexual adventures. Some regret it, some don't.

Heh... see that one red spot deep in the heart of Texas? That's Travis county, AKA Austin. I once read we are second only to San Francisco in the number of non-closeted homosexuals per capita.

That red blob in Michigan ? Ann Arbor. Also a college town.

Mississippi is actually the gayest of them all. They're just in deep denial, like Ted Haggard and that bathroom stall foot-tapping Congressman.

Well you get a point where there are so many around you don't need to use the interweb to be curious....

ha HA! (canada's ghey!)

Well what about those Canadians? :)

I disagree with you Grav. It's all a matter of semantics I suppose, and no-one should be told what their own sexual orientation is, but here's my two pence worth.

If you are interested in the same sex for occasional slap and tickle you can still define yourself as straight. To me, bi-sexual is someone equally comfortable in having a full on relationship with a man or a woman to the exclusion of everyone else. I personally do not believe you can define yourself as bi-sexual if you are unable to fall in love with both genders.

To me, sexual preference is not just about sex.

Yeah, and look at the sharp distinction from Mississippi to Louisiana. Because, once you cross state lines anywhere, the social mores change drastically!

Like, when you cross from Ohio into Kentucky, it's like landing in Oz from Kansas. It's completely different: you would think that state line wouldn't mean so much, but just look at this map for proof. :rolleyes:

(Only thing I can figure is they asked county (or parish) by county (or parish) using the later mentioned "incredible power of computers." :lol:

Here's what they say:

It's those sharp geographic divides that makes this seem all the more bogus.

Ahem...

See that? My very first words...

No, I did not see a chart. And I won't.

The entire world can call gay people and straight people, people for all I care, gay people don't bother me in the least.

And answer me this: How can a straight person have gay sex? If the world saw this as possible, why put the qualifier 'gay' in front of sex? That in itself proposes two different ideas. The statement defeats itself in that regard.

At least that's what I think. And I'm the only one that matters.

And I'm happy to see I was right about the shitstorm.


ETA: To clarify: It's the single statement "Straight people have gay sex too" that I had a problem with, not with any of the opinions/ideals expressed on the website. I did not go to the website.

:rant:

Well look at Indiana, the Ohio river didn't keep out those Kentucky people one bit (one of the reasons we are sometimes called Hoosiertucky). Why did it work for Ohio?

We'uns builded a brij so you hoojers could swim acrosst in th' shade...

For 20 years, Pierre, he eats ze pussy. Zen he sucks one leetle cock, I swear no beegar zen zat, and zey call him Pierre zee beeg cocksucker. Sacre bleu!

The same way a gay person can have straight sex, as many closeted gay people do. Heck, the same way straight people have straight sex with people who they don't love or lust after, for any number of reasons.

Sorry Grav...:p:

Really though, look at how Indiana is so different from Illinois and Ohio on that map. The same is true with the red state/blue state maps too.

psssst, that's because it's a crap report/map.

Yeah but it does correlate with conservative/moderate/liberal maps too, which makes sense when you are dealing with how people think about homosexuality.

Yes, but the lines are never that drawn. You can't tell me that the second you cross a state border (or even a county border) that the social mores just change drastically. I realize the whole point is to illustrate the, um...point...but it's no better than a USA Today graphic. Graphics should illuminate, not be the story. And this one illuminates next to nothing we didn't already know, and barely illustrates that which we did already know, at that. In other words, OKCupid isn't the firecracker journalistic dynamo we might have originally thought. :lol:

Yea, but damm, those Canuks look very gay...

not from here.....