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11 pages in length. The writer provides a brief critique and a lengthier comparative between the author's findings and what others have had to say. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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more widespread than most people would like to believe, even - and sometimes especially - within a national community that purports to be the most open-minded of all global societies.
Attempting to accumulate data for their study, Laumann et al (1994) ran into this overpowering social stigma time and time again until it became more than apparent how being
able to acquire accurate information pertaining to homosexual demographics and experiences was going to be quite a challenge. At issue with the circumstances of being a homosexual member of
a heterosexual society are the fears, expectations and disillusions that come rushing to the surface when homophobes are forced to deal with such associations. The authors illustrate just how
paralyzing this prejudice is to the homosexual communitys ability to be truthful about their lifestyle, habits and desires. "The findings from our research need to be understood in this
context. The widespread, strongly negative view of homosexuality shapes both behaviors and our attempts to measure them. While we have attempted to be nonjudgmental in our inquiries, many
respondents are likely to have been reluctant to report behaviors and feelings that they think might reflect badly on them in the eyes of interviewers or the researchers. The
estimates derived from survey data on socially stigmatized sexual behaviors and feelings, whether they be masturbation, homosexual relations, anal sex, or extramarital affairs, are no doubt lower-bound estimates" (Laumann et
al, 1994, p. 284). Social stigma is only part of what stood to impair the authors ability to produce the most accurate of findings. Ones perception of being
either homosexual or heterosexual often dictate the manner by which respondents view and, thereby, answer questions pertaining to orientation. It is quite clear how social dictate has forced sexual
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