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Analysis Finds Lesbians, Directly Guys Most Enthusiastic About Interracial Romance
AMHERST, Mass. – brand New research from a sociologist in the University of Massachusetts Amherst has unearthed that white right males and lesbians are much more available to online interracial relationship than are white homosexual males and right ladies. Even though it is often thought that gays and lesbians tend to be more racially open-minded than straights, this is apparently true limited to lesbians. Generally speaking, white homosexual males and right women avoid non-white daters.
In a research posted into the issue that is upcoming of log Social Forces, UMass Amherst associate dean Jennifer Lundquist and University of Texas Austin associate professor of sociology Ken-Hou Lin analyzed the racial faculties of 9 million new users and 200 million communications in one for the biggest & most popular U.S. relationship internet sites that gives both heterosexual and same-sex online dating services for scores of active users. The sample that is final of information from 32,351 lesbians, 51,606 homosexual males, 405,021 right ladies and 528,800 right guys taken. In this research they examine the choices of white daters; their research that is ongoing also the racial choices of non-white daters. (more…)
