From: Randy (cryon@mindspring.com)
Date: Wed Jun 23 1999 - 00:29:50 MDT
On Tue, 22 Jun 1999 23:38:13 -0400, you wrote:
>Statistically speaking (using Kinsey's famous statistics), 10% of the
>population is totally gay. About 30% is mostly gay or bisexual. About
>two-thirds have had at least on gay experience. Depending on how you define
>gay, it is not that rare.
>
The Kinsey Report in general and specifically the % of gay people has
been debunked. It is nowhere near as large, I think 2% is the commonly
acknowledged figure, among *impartial* sources.
>Given these statistics, it would not be "interesting" if any of the various
>writers who have influenced our beliefs are thought to have been homosexual.
>It would be "interesting" if there weren't that many gay proto-extropians.
There are indeed a very large number of gay cryonicists (a core
Extropian group), and many cryonicist pioneers were/are gay.
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Randy
Cryonics: Gateway to the Future?
http://www.mindspring.com/~cryon/cryonics/cryopage1.html
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