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What percentage of adults swing?

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Discussed at a recent party and generally folk thought about 5% of sexually active couples. Hmmm...I have my doubts...what do others think?

My partner thinks about 10%

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Sub 2% i reckon

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By *olgateMan
over a year ago

on the road to nowhere in particular

That sounds about right for this site

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

You reckon 10% of sexually active adults in the ENTIRE WORLD swing? Not even 10% of my social circle do.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

I think there are many many more folk that do swing but would never discuss it with friends and colleagues!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I think there are many many more folk that do swing but would never discuss it with friends and colleagues!"

Both esitiantes in the op put swinging as more prevelent than homosexuality.

I find that hard to belive

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My honest guess would be far less than 0.5%

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By *risky_MareWoman
over a year ago

...Up on the Downs


"Sub 2% i reckon "

Me too, if not less than 1%

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By *ancs MinxWoman
over a year ago

Burnley


"I think there are many many more folk that do swing but would never discuss it with friends and colleagues!"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Sub 2% i reckon

Me too, if not less than 1%"

im sure i heard/read somewhere recently that less than 2% of the adult population swing

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"I think there are many many more folk that do swing but would never discuss it with friends and colleagues!

Both esitiantes in the op put swinging as more prevelent than homosexuality.

I find that hard to belive"

So what is the official percentage for being homosexual then?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I think there are many many more folk that do swing but would never discuss it with friends and colleagues!

Both esitiantes in the op put swinging as more prevelent than homosexuality.

I find that hard to belive

So what is the official percentage for being homosexual then?"

1.5% of the UK?

In its 'Integrated Household Survey', the Office for National Statistics asks 178,197 people about their sexual identity - and the vast majority of them choose to answer.

93.5% of people said they were 'heterosexual' or 'straight', just 1.1% said they were 'gay' or 'lesbian' and 0.4% said they were bisexual. The small fraction that was left either refused to answer or said they didn't know. Altogether, amounts to about 545,000 homosexual and 220,000 bisexual adults in the UK.

The claim that just 1.5% of people in Britain are gay, lesbian or bisexual will come as a surprise to some - even perhaps those in government. When they were analysing the financial implications of the new Civil Partnerships Act, the Treasury estimated it was 6%. Stonewall, a gay rights charity reckon that 5-7% "is a reasonable estimate".

For the full article from 2013

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/reality-check/2013/oct/03/gay-britain-what-do-statistics-say

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury


"1.5% of the UK?

For the full article from 2013

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/reality-check/2013/oct/03/gay-britain-what-do-statistics-say"

Thanks for this

Follow up article from 2015

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/apr/05/10-per-cent-population-gay-alfred-kinsey-statistics

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury


"1.5% of the UK?

For the full article from 2013

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/reality-check/2013/oct/03/gay-britain-what-do-statistics-say

Thanks for this

Follow up article from 2015

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/apr/05/10-per-cent-population-gay-alfred-kinsey-statistics"

But...

2015

In a Yougov survey of 1,632 adults, 5.5% identified as gay, 2.1% as bisexual, and 88.7% as heterosexual.[43] Asked to place themselves on the Kinsey scale, 72% of all adults, and 46% of adults aged 18–24 years, picked a score of zero, meaning that they identify as totally heterosexual. Four percent of the total sample, and 6% of young adults, picked a score of six, meaning a totally homosexual identity.[44]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_sexual_orientation#United_Kingdom

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury


"1.5% of the UK?

For the full article from 2013

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/reality-check/2013/oct/03/gay-britain-what-do-statistics-say

Thanks for this

Follow up article from 2015

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/apr/05/10-per-cent-population-gay-alfred-kinsey-statistics

But...

2015

In a Yougov survey of 1,632 adults, 5.5% identified as gay, 2.1% as bisexual, and 88.7% as heterosexual.[43] Asked to place themselves on the Kinsey scale, 72% of all adults, and 46% of adults aged 18–24 years, picked a score of zero, meaning that they identify as totally heterosexual. Four percent of the total sample, and 6% of young adults, picked a score of six, meaning a totally homosexual identity.[44]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_sexual_orientation#United_Kingdom"

And...

According to a new YouGov survey, 49% of 18-24 year-olds in Britain define themselves as something other than completely heterosexual. (2015)

The youth of today!

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

The Daily Mail agrees with 1.5%

The ONS suggests 1.6% of men and 0.8% of women identified as gay or lesbian but that the figure rises to 3.2% in London.

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

Around 1.5% seems to hold water.

Well well.

I've learned something.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

NSATAL-3 interviewed 15,162 men and women aged 16-74 between September 2010 and August 2012.

Percentage of the population who have ever had same-sex experience (people aged 16–44)

...........Genital contact....Any form

Men...... 5%.....................7%

Women. 8%.....................16%

Source: www.natsal.ac.uk

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Nice work Joe, I should have known you'd have more up to date sources

And to finish off the Economist article on the challenges of getting accurate data on LGBTQ statistics from May 2015

http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2015/05/economist-explains-3

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

That may of course just be a one off experience so likely incidence of those identifying ongoing as 1.5% seems reasonable

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"NSATAL-3 interviewed 15,162 men and women aged 16-74 between September 2010 and August 2012.

Percentage of the population who have ever had same-sex experience (people aged 16–44)

...........Genital contact....Any form

Men...... 5%.....................7%

Women. 8%.....................16%

Source: www.natsal.ac.uk

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Cool nice one

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

So... back to the original question...

.

What percentage of UK adults swing?

.

Firstly, define swinger - someone who has multiple partners would be mine.

Any advances?

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury


"So... back to the original question...

.

What percentage of UK adults swing?

.

Firstly, define swinger - someone who has multiple partners would be mine.

Any advances?"

That's a bad definition - it encompasses every horny teenager...

:/

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

Lol - look what I just found via Google...

https://www.fabswingers.com/forum/swingers/74272

Interesting definition tho'

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

The problem is still with the definition of "swinger".

Most definitions seem to suggest that a degree of openness and honesty between partners is necessary.

If we consider there are many couples who might only engage in an occasional threesome and therefore don't consider themselves "swingers" by the technical meaning of the term.

Also there are a number that are what I call "opportunistic swingers" meaning that if the it happens great, if it doesn't no big deal. They aren't out there actively looking for it, but if the opportunity presented itself one day with the right couple or single than it's game-on.

Then there those who do so behind their partner's back...

And all the cannon-fodder of single males who keep the subscriptions rolling in

I can't quite ask the question if I don't know what a "swinger" is.

How odd.

I'll have a think...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

100% of adults in this household are swingers

We like to fuck each other, and loads of other people

HTH

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"The problem is still with the definition of "swinger".

Most definitions seem to suggest that a degree of openness and honesty between partners is necessary.

If we consider there are many couples who might only engage in an occasional threesome and therefore don't consider themselves "swingers" by the technical meaning of the term.

Also there are a number that are what I call "opportunistic swingers" meaning that if the it happens great, if it doesn't no big deal. They aren't out there actively looking for it, but if the opportunity presented itself one day with the right couple or single than it's game-on.

Then there those who do so behind their partner's back...

And all the cannon-fodder of single males who keep the subscriptions rolling in

I can't quite ask the question if I don't know what a "swinger" is.

How odd.

I'll have a think... "

Think you as re right. Many people have their own definition of what a swinger is!

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