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Iranian Parliament Discovers Lots and Lots of Gays in Iran

Posted By Daniel Greenfield On September 13, 2014 @ 9:36 am In The Point | 10 Comments

Well it took a while.

“In Iran we don’t have homosexuals like in your country,” Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said at Columbia University last night in response to a question about the recent execution of two gay men there.

“In Iran we do not have this phenomenon,” he continued. “I do not know who has told you we have it.”

Fareed Zakaria claimed that Newsweek reporter Maziar Bahari was sentenced to prison in part for posting this photo on his Facebook page.

And now they’ve been discovered in Iran. (via Religion of Peace)

An 82-page document recently issued by Iran’s parliamentary research department is stark in its findings. Not only are young adults sexually active, with 80% of unmarried females having boyfriends, but secondary-school pupils are, too. Illicit unions are not just between girls and boys; 17% of the 142,000 students who were surveyed said that they were homosexual.

At 17% Iran would be far gayer than America. Or most places.

While the Middle East does have a higher prevalence of homosexual behavior (which is really not the same as our construct of gay as a permanent genetic identity, itself an unscientific notion) it’s doubtful that these numbers are accurate.

In a country where homosexual behavior is illegal, it’s doubtful that students who really thought they were gay would admit it to any kind of research study. However Iran’s government is looking for excuses to crack down further and numbers like these give them ammunition.

The 17 percent figure suggests that the numbers were made up. But then again even in the West distorted figures like these happen because the students are messing around. It’s one reason we have wildly inflated numbers of the gay population.

Preliminary results from the landmark study — known as “Add Health” — stunned researchers, parents and educators alike, recalls Cornell’s Ritch C. Savin-Williams, professor of human development, licensed clinical psychologist, author and director of the university’s Sex and Gender Lab.

The landmark study was cited across academia, spawning over 1900 peer-reviewed publications, and became one of the largest longitudinal surveys on the psychological and physical well being of 7-12th graders.

Previous estimates of homosexuality and bisexuality among high schoolers had been around 1 percent. So imagine the surprise and confusion when subsequent revisits to the same research subjects found more than 70 percent of the self-reported adolescent nonheterosexuals had somehow gone “straight” as older teens and young adults.

Surprisingly, when given a chance to prank a research, 5-7 percent of students chose to do just that.

It looks like in Iran the figure is more like 17 percent.


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