22

tionships of 10 years or over, but there are other rolatively large groups in the one to three year or the four to six year category.

Material on longth of longest homosexual relationship was also gathe rod, and the results are shown in Table 9. The range here is from four months to 20 years, with a mean duration of between five and six years.

LENGTH

UNDER | YEAR

1-3 YEARS

NO. OF PERSONS

16

49

4-6 YEARS

47

7-9 YEARS

15

10 YRS. OR OVER

22

NO REPLY

8

157

TABLE 9. LENGTH OF LONGEST HOMOSEXUAL RELATIONSHIP

Here again, a breakdown by age is relevant; and this is shown in Table 10. Results, as can be seen, are some what comparable to the material on length of present relationship. Age groups up to 30 cluster around the 1-3 year durati on, and the 30-35 year group is concentrated in the 4-6 year duration. The age groups above 35 again show a bimodal distribution, with

the

AGE IN YEARS

20-25

26-30

31-35 36-40

OVER 40

LENGTH

UNDER | YR.

9

I

4

1

I

1-3 YRS.

17

13

7

6

6

4-6 YRS.

8

12

16

5

6

7-9 YRS.

1

1

7

3

3

10 YRS. & OVER

0

I

0

13

8

NO REPLY

(1)

(3)

(0)

(3)

(1)

36

31

34

31

25

TOTAL: 157

TABLE 10. LENGTH OF LONGEST HOMOSEXUAL RELATION, BY AGE BRACKET