men and more women became aware between the ages of 11 and 15 than in any other ago bracket. The rango varied from 6 to 30 years for the men, from 5 to 44 years for the women.

Earliest homosexual experience occurred on the averago at 15.8 years for the men – later than awareness, &E WAS alco true for the wo-

men. This is earlier

than tho average age of earliest experience for the women which

-

was almost 20 ye arse

Range of carliest ox-

perience

vario d

for

the men from 4 to 36 years, compared to 6

to 44 years for

tho

womon. More men

had

their first experienco

between 11 and

15

'HUMEROUS'

NO. OF RELATIONSHIPS

OVER-20

11-20

6-10

1-5

MEN WOMEN

10

20 30 40 50 00 70 80 00

years than at any other

time; moro women ha d theirs between

20 years.

16 and

NO OF PERSONS REPORTING

FIG. NO. OF HOMOSEXUAL RELATIONS OF SHORT DURATION

The percentage distribution of replies to

these two questions is as follows:

EARLIEST AWARENESS OF HOMOSEXUAL TENDENCIES

EARLIEST HOMO-

SEXUAL EXPER | ENCE

AGE

MEN

WOMEN

MEN

WOMEN

LESS THAN 5 YEARS

0%

0.5%

1%

5-10 YEARS

19

9

21

11-15 YEARS

39

41

31

16-20 YEARS

26

29

22

21-30 YEARS

10

13

21

31

31-40 YEARS

0

3

❁ ཨདྷ ག

OVER 40 YEARS

NO REPLY OR DOUBTFUL

。༄།g

0.5

0

0.5

6

4

3

4.5

ག

100

100

100

TABLE 9

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