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| quote: | Originally posted by metalgearsolid
No, it isn't. You are not getting it. Beatings are prelevant in heterosexual couples. And why is that? B/c the male is A LOT stronger than the female. |
Men are violent in general and they'll beat each other if they don't have wives to beat. You're right that a male is A LOT stronger than the female. But I think something else has to do with the beatings, because gay men seem to beat each other as much, if not more than heterosexual couples.
Here's some stats
| quote: | 20-30% of American women will be physically abused by a partner at least once in their lifetimes
11% of women in homosexual relationships and 23% of men in homosexual relationships report being raped, physically assaulted, and/or stalked by an intimate partner |
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According to those stats, domestic violence in the US is the same with heterosexual and male homosexual relationships. (I can't say the same for Muslim countries, because homosexuals are routinely jailed or executed for being in homosexual relationships). So you're right that men are stronger than women and therefore beat them, but it looks like men will beat each other too, which throws out your stronger vs. weaker theory. Maybe men are just overall more violent, whether straight or gay.
| quote: | | In a recent issue of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, it was estimated that 22.1% of women and 7.4% of men experience some sort of domestic violence during their lifetime, while the factsheet on domestic violence from the Center for Disease Control placed the numbers higher at 29% and 22%, respectively (Domestic, 2005; Intimate, 2006). While these numbers are representative of both homosexual and heterosexual people, a study by Stephen S. Owen and Tod W. Burke specifically focusing on self-identified homosexuals revealed that 56.1% of the respondents had been the victims in some sort of domestic violence. When they compared these findings to a representative group of heterosexuals, they found that "intimate partner assault may be more prevalent against gay men than against heterosexual men, but there was no significant difference between lesbians and heterosexual females" |
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This sort goes along with the idea that gay men fuck like bunnies because all men want is sex. I guess it's the same with domestic violence too then?
Anyway, why the hell did you bring up the question when you think you knew the answer already? Do I have "knows about gay relationships" in my profile somewhere? 
Last edited by Jake Benson on Mar-06-2007 at 12:33
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