For anyone who can’t find them… :D
It’s like the Where’s Waldo of gay sex.
It’s interesting that only one out of the lot of them was (at least within the last 6 months) gay. All the rest with same-sex relations were bisexual (at least within the last 6 months).
And those are the few bisexuals. Because the gays… Well those are a complete graph basically.
I only found one, thanks
Damn I wanna know this guy’s secret!
I was just about to point that out!
aph apparently is real
Alpha male
A striking lack of single dots that should be hovering around these.
Would you consider that a romantic or sexual relation? Or both?
Depends on which hand you use.
Surprisingly few gay relationships
It’s the midwest, so probably a lot in hiding
1993-1995 as well.
That one circular chain of people who seemed mostly to agree of having either two gfs or two bfs and never crossing another person in the chain…
I find that extremely unlikely to occur. There’s just no way it’s a single link circle.
That circle is just the scientific representation of the old Tom Leherer song!
This is actually very interresting. I always found it hard to understand how some people can have so many sexual partners, and then there are people with very few of sexual partners. I had this theory that there must be some subculture of people who are really into this, date eachother in this group which causes their number to increase abnormally. It was just a silly theory but this sort of supports it?
If you look at this a little closer, you’ll notice that there aren’t actually that many highly connected nodes.
The big structure is mostly composed of single link chains.Hmm you’re right, I thought the big circle was more interconnected. Actually it’s a bit weird that there are basically no crossing lines
Elsewhere it was mentioned that the researchers were also surprised by that, and did followup interviews that revealed that it was against social rules to date your exes partners ex. Basically two couples can’t “swap” partners. I thought it was interesting that you didn’t see that, but you do see a few triangles.
And that’s even more interesting. As someone who was not part of any of the graph in high school / college, how would a big link of chains play out in real time?
Like “The Mary and Tom met at a party. Next week Tom stumbled into Lucy by the lockers…”
I find it hard to imagine.
I wonder how many lied
They’d have to lie about who they slept with, and I expect the other person might have something to say about that if it was not true.
I wonder if they verified each claim from both sides.
Edit: it’s a scientific paper, so there’s no need to wonder!
In fig. 2, and in all discussions presented here, all romantic and sexual relationship nominations linking students are included, whether or not the nomination from i to j was reciprocated with a nomination from j to i.
whether or not the nomination from i to j was reciprocated with a nomination from j to i.
Oh, so there was no bullshit filter
Then it’s certainly mostly bullshit. Male students tend to massively exaggerate when they tell stories about how many sexual relationships they had. Source: I was a male student.
I’m surprised to see that a few people have had 5 or 6 sexual partners while in high school.
Edit: missed the guy with 9!
…within the previous 6 months.
Is it that odd?
I had 5 or 6, and if you count kissing a lot more. By now I’ve had several more and if you count kissing I’ve completely lost count.
For reference, I’m not particularly attractive and I’m right on the border of normie but not quite. I think my weird friends think I’m a normie and my normie friends think I’m a nerd.
There were guys I went to high school with who had far, far more sex than I ever did. More than I was even interested in because they’d sleep with just about anyone who was willing at any party.
By 12th grade, some of the “cool kids” I went to school with probably had 10-15+ sexual partners under their belt.
I left school at 16 with exactly one person to put on a graph like this.
My first two relationships were like 5 years long in total. After the second break-up things accelerated a lot, but in school I think my situation was pretty standard.
They live in their own world…Why are there 2 horizontal parallel lines instead of just one with a 2 bellow it?
Wow, that’s literally not me.
some of the subtrees here made me say “wtf is going on here”
The one guy who got with 9 people… is he a liar or a rizzler?
I imagine they has to be confirmed from both sides…
They don’t.
A missed opportunity to arrange the graph in an artistic fashion. 😹
That paper is the scientific version of the old Tom Leherer song!
