Type most likely to be Lesbian, Gay, or Bisexual

lemurs · Nov 13, 2014

I have some information I grabbed from OkCupid that shows the percentage of each type that reports themselves straight, bisexual, or gay. The results are based on users that stated their type on their profile. Also, based on a much larger amount of profiles, the data says 83.94% of women are straight, 10.67% bisexual, and 5.38% gay. For males: 91.45% straight, 1.77% bisexual, 6.78% gay.

It's interesting to me. What do you think of this?

Females (ordered by % straight in ascending order)

Tier	Type	% Straight	% Bisexual	% Gay	# Profiles
2	INFP	58.06	30.65	11.29	744
2	INTP	58.56	33.03	8.41	333
3	INFJ	65.68	25.03	9.29	807
3	ISFP	66.81	28.57	4.62	238
3	ISTP	67.72	25.20	7.09	127
3	ENFP	68.25	26.11	5.64	904
3	INTJ	69.36	23.12	7.52	359
3	ISFJ	72.26	21.41	6.33	411
4	ESFP	73.63	18.91	7.46	201
4	ENTP	75.11	18.67	6.22	450
4	ENTJ	75.67	16.67	7.66	522
4	ENFJ	77.92	16.83	5.26	1046
4	ISTJ	78.70	16.86	4.44	338
4	ESTP	79.59	17.35	3.06	98
5	ESFJ	84.79	10.27	4.94	263
5	ESTJ	85.80	11.73	2.47	162

Males (ordered by % straight in ascending order)

Tier	Type	% Straight	% Bisexual	% Gay	# Profiles
1	ESFJ	71.05	2.96	25.99	304
2	ENFJ	74.32	4.34	21.34	1429
3	INFJ	78.37	4.38	17.25	1438
3	ENFP	78.53	5.07	16.40	1616
3	ESFP	80.69	3.43	15.89	321
3	ISFJ	80.92	1.75	17.32	456
3	INFP	81.33	5.51	13.16	1505
4	ESTJ	85.00	0.95	14.05	420
4	INTJ	85.56	3.69	10.74	1815
4	ENTJ	86.05	2.44	11.51	1842
4	ISFP	86.84	3.42	9.74	380
4	ESTP	86.96	2.17	10.87	276
4	ISTJ	88.63	2.63	8.74	1064
5	INTP	89.13	4.63	6.24	2051
5	ENTP	89.26	3.38	7.36	1806
5	ISTP	92.43	2.67	4.90	674

Females (ordered by % straight in ascending order)

Ethnicity	% Straight	% Bisexual	% Gay	# Profiles
Native American	76.96	15.85	7.19	1558
Hispanic / Latin	79.69	10.92	9.39	13531
Black	83.51	9.05	7.44	18016
Pacific Islander	83.62	8.28	8.10	1667
White	85.00	10.13	4.87	360151
Middle Eastern	85.70	9.53	4.77	1867
Asian	89.79	5.69	4.52	18499
Indian	92.33	4.91	2.76	3117

Males (ordered by % straight in ascending order)

Ethnicity	% Straight	% Bisexual	% Gay	# Profiles
Hispanic / Latin	87.00	1.37	11.63	40267
Asian	89.07	1.25	9.68	39447
Pacific Islander	89.61	1.49	8.90	3965
Native American	90.34	2.41	7.24	2029
Black	90.97	1.34	7.69	33079
White	92.00	1.77	6.24	744626
Middle Eastern	92.23	1.30	6.47	5841
Indian	95.91	0.77	3.33	13287

Females (least likely to be straight)

Location	% Straight	% Bisexual	% Gay	# Profiles
Northampton, Massachusetts	62.45	25.31	12.24	245
Amherst, Massachusetts	68.51	25.97	5.52	181
Emeryville, California	69.52	20.86	9.63	187
Brisbane, Australia	69.62	21.06	9.31	451
Adelaide, Australia	69.71	22.12	8.17	208
Ypsilanti, Michigan	71.32	19.25	9.43	265
Olympia, Washington	71.54	21.54	6.91	376
Stockholm, Sweden	71.60	23.20	5.20	250
Cardiff, United Kingdom	71.82	22.65	5.52	181
Santa Cruz, California	72.09	21.71	6.20	516

Females (most likely to be straight)

Location	% Straight	% Bisexual	% Gay	# Profiles
Cebu City, Philippines	96.14	2.42	1.45	207
Hoboken, New Jersey	96.03	2.65	1.32	378
Beijing, China	95.17	3.35	1.49	269
Hong Kong, Hong Kong	94.90	4.46	0.64	314
Tel Aviv, Israel	94.78	3.60	1.62	862
Moscow, Russia	94.73	4.59	0.68	588
Shanghai, China	94.64	4.76	0.60	336
Forest Hills, New York	94.51	2.75	2.75	182
Arlington, Virginia	94.00	3.57	2.43	1233
Kirkland, Washington	93.64	5.93	0.42	236

Males (least likely to be straight)

Location	% Straight	% Bisexual	% Gay	# Profiles
West Hollywood, California	43.79	1.47	54.74	475
Washington, District of Columbia	78.71	1.61	19.68	5895
New York, New York	78.77	1.30	19.93	20087
Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts	80.09	2.81	17.10	427
Astoria, New York	80.56	0.84	18.60	1898
Boston, Massachusetts	81.24	2.18	16.58	3487
Manila, Philippines	81.97	5.83	12.20	549
Dorchester, Massachusetts	81.97	1.09	16.94	183
Providence, Rhode Island	82.17	3.76	14.07	931
Elmhurst, New York	82.70	3.24	14.05	185

Males (most likely to be straight)

Location	% Straight	% Bisexual	% Gay	# Profiles
Fort Bragg, North Carolina	99.23	0.00	0.77	260
Calcutta, India	98.97	0.51	0.51	195
Minot, North Dakota	98.95	1.05	0.00	191
Pune, India	98.93	0.36	0.71	280
Cairo, Egypt	98.35	0.83	0.83	242
Yukon, Oklahoma	98.29	0.00	1.71	175
Mooresville, North Carolina	98.25	0.58	1.17	171
Hyderābād, India	98.17	0.91	0.91	219
Istanbul, Turkey	97.81	0.70	1.49	1004
New Delhi, India	97.69	0.99	1.32	606

The Nameless Composer · Nov 13, 2014

ok cupid is hardly a scientific source. Plus these days women are much more likely to identify as bisexual for various reasons, including social/cultural acceptance.

atenea · Nov 18, 2014

The Nameless Composer said:
ok cupid is hardly a scientific source. Plus these days women are much more likely to identify as bisexual for various reasons, including social/cultural acceptance.

Social acceptance of bisexuality? Not at all. Homosexuality is better accepted.

Grandmaster Yoda · Nov 18, 2014

I think my information is being solicited without my permission. I'm calling the national officers of law enforcement.

Kazoo The Kid · Nov 18, 2014

I thinks its interesting hispanics are more likely to be gay. I feel like hispanic culture is very sexually open. Coming from me as a Puerto Rican. I feel like I was raised in a way where sex was talked about as a complete normal body function since I was a child as opposed to other cultures which make sex this big and scary thing.

It also seems bisexual females are more common than pure lesbians.

Native Americans seen to always have slightly more bisexuals

There is so much interesting information here.

Also I need to go to West Hollywood.

But yea as a Gay Hispanic ESFP in NYC I'm pretty statisically likely.

reckful · Nov 18, 2014

atenea said:
Social acceptance of bisexuality? Not at all. Homosexuality is better accepted.

Yikes. I definitely disagree with that. Speaking for the good old USA, I'd say, first (partly echoing @The Nameless Composer), that there's more social acceptance of both bisexuality and homosexuality when it involves women (remember Madonna and Britney locking lips on one of those awards shows? I think the hipness/shocking ratio there was considerably higher than if it had been two guys smooching), and second, that there's more social acceptance of bi women (and particularly when they ID as mainly straight but with a "bi side") than exclusively lesbian women, not to mention probably more acceptance of more femme-y lesbians than butchier lesbians.

And hopefully needless to say, I'm not endorsing any flavor of lack-of-acceptance along those lines, but that's my take on who's more likely to meet up with "social acceptance" difficulties.

stiletto · Nov 18, 2014

wtf? What does your personality type have anything to do with your sexual orientation?

galactic collision · Nov 18, 2014

As a bi/pan woman who previously identified as gay, I can give you an insider's perspective on the "is it easier to be gay or bi" debate. It's much easier to be gay. If you say "I'm gay/a lesbian" no one questions you. Straight people are like, "oh, okay." Other gay people are like, "cool, welcome to the club." However, when you come out as bisexual, something else happens. Straight people ask you, "So you, like, kiss girls and guys or what?" People question whether or not you are monogamous. There is a huge amount of distrust in the gay community of bisexuals and a huge lack of support. Within our own community, or a community that should be welcoming of us. If you are dating a girl, you're asked, "So, are you gay now?" If you're dating a guy, "so you're straight." You are constantly questioned to define your sexuality for the world, you are constantly asked to validate your identity. And then you are called "gay" by other people because anybody who isn't heterosexual/cisgender is constantly lumped in with "the gays" but then when you identify as gay for the sake of convenience you're attacked for it.

There are a lot of politics in the LGBT community that we don't talk about. The fact of the matter is that the LGBT community is more of an LG community with sprinklings of B and T, but only with the bi/trans people constantly work to prove their worth and their place in the community. And even then, only if they fit the community's guidelines for what a bi or trans person should look and act like.

Anyway, back to the topic of this thread, which I do find interesting. It's funny to me how the most bisexual people are Ne-doms.

Golden Rose · Nov 18, 2014

Next on PerC, MBTI section: "Are gingers and NFs correlated?" and "Disliking broccoli is a clear sign you're an ISTP".

reckful · Nov 18, 2014

justforthespark said:
As a bi/pan woman who previously identified as gay, I can give you an insider's perspective on the "is it easier to be gay or bi" debate. It's much easier to be gay. If you say "I'm gay/a lesbian" no one questions you. Straight people are like, "oh, okay." Other gay people are like, "cool, welcome to the club." However, when you come out as bisexual, something else happens. Straight people ask you, "So you, like, kiss girls and guys or what?" People question whether or not you are monogamous. There is a huge amount of distrust in the gay community of bisexuals and a huge lack of support. Within our own community, or a community that should be welcoming of us. If you are dating a girl, you're asked, "So, are you gay now?" If you're dating a guy, "so you're straight." You are constantly questioned to define your sexuality for the world, you are constantly asked to validate your identity. And then you are called "gay" by other people because anybody who isn't heterosexual/cisgender is constantly lumped in with "the gays" but then when you identify as gay for the sake of convenience you're attacked for it.

There are a lot of politics in the LGBT community that we don't talk about. The fact of the matter is that the LGBT community is more of an LG community with sprinklings of B and T, but only with the bi/trans people constantly work to prove their worth and their place in the community. And even then, only if they fit the community's guidelines for what a bi or trans person should look and act like.

Anyway, back to the topic of this thread, which I do find interesting. It's funny to me how the most bisexual people are Ne-doms.

My focus definitely wasn't on "social acceptance" difficulties within the LGBT community, and you'd think that would be a substantially more accepting/tolerant bunch than the straight mainstream, but maybe not so much.

Comparing a woman who IDs as "mostly straight but with a bi side" to an exclusively lesbian woman, do you think the first woman is likely to run into more "social acceptance" problems in the context of straight/mainstream American society than the second woman?

GoosePeelings · Nov 18, 2014

No asexuality?

Lacuna · Nov 18, 2014

Hey @lemurs -- how'd you get all this data? What test did all of those people take?

Catallena · Nov 18, 2014

reckful said:
Yikes. I definitely disagree with that. Speaking for the good old USA, I'd say, first (partly echoing @The Nameless Composer), that there's more social acceptance of both bisexuality and homosexuality when it involves women (remember Madonna and Britney locking lips on one of those awards shows? I think the hipness/shocking ratio there was considerably higher than if it had been two guys smooching), and second, that there's more social acceptance of bi women (and particularly when they ID as mainly straight but with a "bi side") than exclusively lesbian women, not to mention probably more acceptance of more femme-y lesbians than butchier lesbians.

And hopefully needless to say, I'm not endorsing any flavor of lack-of-acceptance along those lines, but that's my take on who's more likely to meet up with "social acceptance" difficulties.

People don't take bisexuality as seriously as homosexuality. Many people think "it's only a phase" or they do it just for show. The "shock/hipness" factor doesn't equal acceptance. Honestly I think stuff like that can be more detrimental to the idea of bisexuality.

The "social acceptance" of bi women isn't really true acceptance but mainly just straight guys seeing it as hot to look at.

atenea · Nov 18, 2014

Siouxsie said:
People don't take bisexuality as seriously as homosexuality. Many people think "it's only a phase" or they do it just for show. The "shock/hipness" factor doesn't equal acceptance. Honestly I think stuff like that can be more detrimental to the idea of bisexuality.

The "social acceptance" of bi women isn't really true acceptance but mainly just straight guys seeing it as hot to look at.

I agree with your whole post completely. People tend to think that bisexuals are promiscous, sex-obsessed and incapable of being faithful to one partner (because they will always be lacking something from the other sex). Or that bisexuals are just confused people who don't know what they like or gay people who are afraid to admit it (and prefer to say they're bisexuals because it is better accepted socially...yeah right

). I've even read/heard people say that bisexuality doesn't exist, but nobody denies the existence of homosexuality.

B00Bz · Nov 18, 2014

One thing about okcupid, I took two "official" MBTI tests on there...the long one and the short one. One gave me ISTP, the other gave me ENTP, neither were correct. So, I don't know how they come by these numbers, but I'm going to have to assume it's not entirely accurate.

Catallena · Nov 18, 2014

B00Bz said:
One thing about okcupid, I took two "official" MBTI tests on there...the long one and the short one. One gave me ISTP, the other gave me ENTP, neither were correct. So, I don't know how they come by these numbers, but I'm going to have to assume it's not entirely accurate.

Yeah that's a good point. I got INFP. There's obviously a lot of flaws in there but correlating sexuality and MBTI is bullshit anyway so it's not like it matters in the end. :laughing:

hannachi · Nov 18, 2014

Cultural "acceptance" of female bisexuality is often confused with mainstream acceptance of masculine fetishes of female on female.

Honestly I'd love to see the reaction to Adam Levine kissing Michael Buble. It would be an interesting look into which group of people has the most say in what is "accepted". (I have a sinking suspicion that if either of those men came out as gay or bisexual they would be taken more seriously, less sexualized, and the "its a phase" phrase wouldn't be thrown around quite as much.)

[I say these things without knowing anything other then being physically attractive, Adam Levine is ADHD and Buble is (more of) an asshole.

Perhaps a better example would be if Tom Hardy and Leonardo DiCaprio kissed. I think the world would do through so much WTFerly. (Or better yet Sean Connery and Daniel Craig. Imagine the mayhem.)]

While woman most definitely fetishize gay men (persons, characters etc, no matter if they are homosexual or not) I have a hard time imagining the same reaction to two men kissing (especially uber popular ones) than there was between two woman kissing.

I'd say that female bisexuality is trivialized, which can look suspiciously like "accepted".

Edit:

I realized I didn't say anything about MBTI correlation to homosexuality: Bullshit.

Now, repression, expressionism, or self confidence, sure. An ENFP is going to react or rationalize homosexuality differently then an ESTJ. External correlation is not the end all be all when it comes to looking at perceived trends in MBTI tested people.

Edit 2: spelling :/

Flaming Bassoon · Nov 18, 2014

justforthespark said:
Anyway, back to the topic of this thread, which I do find interesting. It's funny to me how the most bisexual people are Ne-doms.

Ikr, I'm technically pansexual (but if anyone asks I just say bisexual because most people's definition of gender vs. sex is fucked up) too. I've actually heard stereotypes that ENFPs are bisexual, probably relating to openness or whatever although, as many people here have noted, it's bs.

Kazoo The Kid · Nov 19, 2014

Karma said:
Next on PerC, MBTI section: "Are gingers and NFs correlated?" and "Disliking broccoli is a clear sign you're an ISTP".

stiletto said:
wtf? What does your personality type have anything to do with your sexual orientation?

I honestly don't think its as silly as you guys make it seem. I'd imagine its harder for a person who appreciates and loves tradition to come out as a sexual miniority. While INFPs and 4s are more likely to embrace it as it makes them "special".

I've noticed Si types tend to have a lot harder of a time dealing with their sexuality as opposed to an Ne type.

Also keep in mind gay men and women are often pressured to fit into masculine or feminine stereotypes and it can greatly effects one personality when people treat a man as more of a "female" like people tend to do with gay men.

I don't think it has anything to do with personality, but personality is HUGE in the way a person deals with being gay in society. According to this india has a lot less gay people. Is that true? Probably not, but middle eastern cultures and governments are a lot less friendly to LGBT people and thats reflected in the study.

Golden Rose · Nov 19, 2014

@Kazoo
I'm not denying that the discussion has potential, I'm LGBT myself.

I simply don't think that a thread associating a probably inaccurate OKC statistic with people jumping at functions, as if they were an indicator of someone's sexuality, is the best way to go at it. I'm curious, myself, to see how differently a gay Si-dom and a gay Fi-dom deal with their sexuality but I know how this kind of threads usually turn out to be and I'd rather save them for sections where people won't be able to make any kind of stereotyping leap. (wishful thinking but at least it'd be clear that cognitive functions =/= sexual development or attraction)

Type most likely to be Lesbian, Gay, or Bisexual

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atenea

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Kazoo The Kid

reckful

stiletto

galactic collision

Golden Rose

reckful

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atenea

B00Bz

Catallena

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Kazoo The Kid

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