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In the United States in 1948
Dr Kinsey's studies led him to
conclude that 4% of adult men
are exclusively homosexual
throughout their lives after the
onset of adolescence. He also
found evidence to suggest that
10% of the male population are
more or less exclusively
homosexual for at least 3 years
between the ages of 16 and 65
and that 37% of the total male
population have at least some
overt homosexual experience
between adolescence and old
age. The Law Reform Commission
concluded (para. 527 of the
Report on Laws Governing
Homosexual Conduct) that it
would be realistic to expert
between 5% and 10% of the male
population to be homosexual,
that is, at June 1987 figures,
between 145,000 and 290,000 men.
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