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).
I might be explained by the fact that it’s a lot harder to find a partner if you are gay and most of them outsource their search
Probably more just that this was the 90s
Surprisingly few gay relationships
It’s the midwest, so probably a lot in hiding
1993-1995 as well.
A striking lack of single dots that should be hovering around these.
Would you consider that a romantic or sexual relation? Or both?
The lines are relations. The dots are people.
Yes, but the graphic is titled romantic and sexual relations. And as you deduced correctly, single dots are not relations.
Damn I wanna know this guy’s secret!
They’re probably in touch with their emotions and express them in a healthy way and aren’t afraid of intimacy outside of sex and romantic relationships
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 kept looking at that too. It’s crazy to me that there are only 2 cycles in the graph and one is the big accidental one. It honestly makes me think that either something must be wrong with the data, or it’s reflective of some deep principle of math or sexuality (e.g. that people won’t fuck around within their close social grouping nearly as readily as they will with people on the outskirts of it).
The authors wrote that they were surprised too and went back to talk to the students and apparently there was an unwritten rule that you don’t date the ex of the new partner of your ex. So if Bob and Alice split up and Alice starts dating Ben, then Bob should not date Ben’s ex Alison.
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!
Sexual or romantic partners.
I “dated” a classmate for a month at 14 until he wanted me to sit on his lap and I broke up with him because I felt like I’d be too heavy but didn’t want to admit that, so I didn’t know how to talk to him about it.
If you’d asked me at 14, if he was a romantic partner, on god I’d have said yes.
