Dataclysm: Love, Sex, Race, and Identity--What Our Online Lives Tell Us about Our Offline Selves

by Christian Rudder

Also, our male-to-female ratings curve is unimodal, meaning that the women’s scores tend to cluster around a single value.

Unimodal - cluster toward single value

In any event, they’re far more generous than the women, whose votes go like this:

Women think men are le attrctive then men on average... I dont dissgree

Women want men to age with them. And men always head toward youth. A thirty-two-year-old woman will sign up, set her age-preference filters at 28–35, and begin to browse. That thirty-five-year-old man will come along, set his filters to 24–40, and yet rarely contact anyone over twenty-nine. Neither finds what they are looking for. You could say they’re like two ships passing in the night, but that’s not quite right. The men do seem at sea, pulled to some receding horizon. But in my mind I see the women still on solid ground, ashore, just watching them disappear.

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the top 2 percent of gay men are having about 28 percent of the total gay sex.

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Many gay people see bisexuality as a hedge.

Kinsey spectrum

“Respondents who identified as gay or lesbian responded significantly less positively toward bisexuality … indicating that even within the sexual minority community,

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