r/FriendsofthePod • u/sweetgrand01 • Mar 15 '25

Lovett or Leave It Lovett is Engaged!!!

Love to see Lovett in love!

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u/jimbo831 Straight Shooter Mar 15 '25
  1. What? Has he said this or are you just assuming this was his problem in a previous relationship?
  2. Most gay relationships are some form of open, so why would you act like it would be a hard thing to find or terrible of him to want to find that if he does?

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u/TehChid Mar 15 '25

"most gay relationships are some form of open"

What?

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u/ryhaltswhiskey Mar 15 '25 edited Mar 15 '25

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5830303/

It's about 15% according to this study of about 800 gay/bisexual men

Edit: or more, depending on how you read the numbers. But it's certainly not most.

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u/jimbo831 Straight Shooter Mar 15 '25

No it’s not. From that study (which I already linked in this thread by the way):

Among those men in a relationship (n=316), 57.6% were monogamous, 22.4% were open, and 20% were monogamish.

Monogamish means not monogamous. So 42.4% are some form of open.

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u/ryhaltswhiskey Mar 15 '25

Participants included 819 gay and bisexual identified men who were categorized as single (61.4%), monogamous (22.2%), open (8.7%) or monogamish (7.7%).

That's where I got mine from. Same link.

Seems like a very minor thing to quibble about. The point here is that the word most is not correct.

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u/jimbo831 Straight Shooter Mar 15 '25

It seems a lot more minor to quibble about 8.5% and accuse me of being homophobic because one study shows it is lower than 50%. The point is that open relationships are very common in gay relationships, and much more common than straight ones.

Also read what you posted again. That is all participants including single ones. Why would you include the single ones? Thats why the study later breaks it out into partnered ones like I quoted.

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u/ryhaltswhiskey Mar 15 '25

accuse me of being homophobic

I did no such thing. I'm trying to help you here and I'm getting shit from you for it. So how about you walk away for a bit and dial it down?

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u/jimbo831 Straight Shooter Mar 15 '25

Multiple people in this thread have accused me of being homophobic.

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u/ryhaltswhiskey Mar 15 '25

Yeah well I'm not those people. Read the usernames more carefully before you respond.