the female figure; 93% of the mon rate themselves as more homosexual than heterosexual

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again strikingly close to the female percentage. The rating scale and results for both groups are given below:

PERCENT OF

VEN

WOMEN

EXCLUSIVELY HETEROSEXUAL WITH NO HOMOSEXUALITY

0

0

PREDOMINANTLY HETEROSEXUAL, ONLY INCIDENTALLY

2

2.5

HOMOSEXUAL

PREDOMINANTLY HETEROSEXUAL, BUT MORE THAN

4

INCIDENTALLY HOMOSEXUAL

EQUALLY HETEROSEXUAL AND HOMOSEXUAL PREDOMINANTLY HOMOSEXUAL, BUT MORE THAN

4

2.5

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5

INCIDENTALLY HETEROSEXUAL

PREDOMINANTLY HOMOSEXUAL, BUT INCIDENTALLY

HETEROSEXUAL

EXCLUSIVELY HOMOSEXUAL

པླ3」༅

100

100

གླ ལྦ」g

TABLE 5. HOMOSEXUAL-HETEROSEXUAL SCALE

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only 15% of

Marital status of the men differed from that of the women in that fewer of the men were ever married the men compared to 27% of the women. This result may reflect in part the greater social pressure on women to marry. Less than half of the men who married stayed married; less than a quarter of the women did.

Reasons for marriage given by the men include security, social acceptance, need for companionship, thought of a possible cure (which did not materialize), and in several cases a general idea that marriage would some how "work out." In general, this was similar to the reasons given by the women Incidentally, only 2 men mentioned a desire for children as a reason for marriage; none of the women whatever mentioned this as a reason (though pregnancy was the reason for one of the women's marriages). However, 15% of the women actually did have children, while only 10% of the men reported any. In the men's case understatement of the number of children through ignorance is of course possible.

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