different reasons. Whore women woro somtimes unfortain whether to count an emotional relation that was not specifically sexual, men had trouble deciding whether to oount and generally did not count specifically sexual experiences that were not emotional. This probably explains the fact that only 46% of the men said they wero presently involved in a homosexual relationship, whereas 72% of the women said they wore. It seems likely that these figures understate the percentage of mon currently engaging in sexual contacts with partners of the same sex; whereas it probably does not understate, and may even overstate the percentage of women so doing. Furthermore, some 46% of the men mention that they are presently involved in several, rather than one, homosexual relation. None of the women mentioned such a situation.

As was to be expected, the range of homosexual relations of short duration reported was greater for the men than for the women. While the most active woman reported hundreds of short relations, the corresponding male specified 5000. As the chart below indicates, the distribution of male replies leans more to the high side than does that of the women. This does not mean that most of the men reported a large number of short relations, however. In fact more men (and also more women) reported between 1 and 5 short relations than any other number; the median malo reported 5; whereas the female reported 3.

Awareness of "homosexual tendencies" came earlier to the men than to the women, though the range was slightly narrower. The average age of earliest awaroness was 14.7 years for the mon, 16.6 years for the women. Moro (PERCENT OF TOTAL WHO ATTEND) MEN

WOMEN

གླལྦ༄ཀ

EXTENT OF ATTENDANCE

VERY OCCASIONALLY (LESS THAN ONCE A MONTH) OCCASIONALLY (1-2 TIMES A MONTH)

ONCE OR TWICE A WEEK

NIGHTLY

100

TABLE 8. FREQUENCY OF ATTENDING HOMOSEXUAL BARS