Gallup finds 3.4% of Americans and 6.4% of 'youngs' identify as LGBT

[J. J.]

I'm sure the percentage is a tad more.

NBC did a poll in the late 1970's or early 1980's, which is where I heard the numbers.

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

I would guess that, when all the dust settles and there's no reason to lie about sexual identity, the percentage of non-heterosexuals will come in somewhere just under 10%.

[DC Al Fine]

What % of the population is asexual?

[opebo]

What % of the population is asexual?

A huge and growing number, I'm sure.  Capitalism emasculates.

[DC Al Fine]

What % of the population is asexual?

A huge and growing number, I'm sure.  Capitalism emasculates.

Watching porn in one's basement /= Asexual

Family formation and babies are down. Sex drive, not so much. Although Japan is a weird exception.

[J. J.]

What % of the population is asexual?

A huge and growing number, I'm sure.  Capitalism emasculates.

No, STD's do.

[opebo]

What % of the population is asexual?

A huge and growing number, I'm sure.  Capitalism emasculates.

No, STD's do.

Seriously? 

[DC Al Fine]

What % of the population is asexual?

A huge and growing number, I'm sure.  Capitalism emasculates.

No, STD's do.

Seriously? 

American women have been getting fatter and fatter. I'm sure that kills many a boner.

[Svensson]

What % of the population is asexual?

A huge and growing number, I'm sure.  Capitalism emasculates.

No, STD's do.

Seriously? 

American women have been getting fatter and fatter. I'm sure that kills many a boner.

Not Clarence's.

[opebo]

American women have been getting fatter and fatter. I'm sure that kills many a boner.

Haha, no doubt, DC.. it even drove me away from the Bad Place.

But why do you support the economic system which makes people fat and asexual?

[DC Al Fine]

American women have been getting fatter and fatter. I'm sure that kills many a boner.

Haha, no doubt, DC.. it even drove me away from the Bad Place.

But why do you support the economic system which makes people fat and asexual?

Socialist systems tend to make people skinny for the wrong reason. If you were going to make an economic system designed exclusively to make women thin, it would involve more and less government intervention. Here's what I would do:

1) Put strict regulation on food producers. Ban some fats etc.
2) Stop teaching that 10+ servings of grain is required in a healthy diet. This was true when people worked in the fields or the woods or the mines, but it doesn't apply to today's office worker
3) Change the safety net to promote good choices, including:
a) Fat taxes
b) Tax credits for exercise expenses
c) Restricting divorce
d) Reducing aid/alimony/child support for single mothers and divorcee's.

[opebo]

Socialist systems tend to make people skinny for the wrong reason.

What?  Good public transport and lots of leisure time are 'wrong'?

As for your proposed reforms, haha!  Hilarious.  You do realize, don't you, that it is corporations and capital who have made their subjects fat, don't you?  If food production production were strictly regulated to prevent its control by large corporations, and workers were given several months holiday per year, high unionized wages, and 20 hour working weeks, plus good transport (eliminating every-day use of cars), few people would be fat.

[DC Al Fine]

Socialist systems tend to make people skinny for the wrong reason.

What?  Good public transport and lots of leisure time are 'wrong'?

As for your proposed reforms, haha!  Hilarious.  You do realize, don't you, that it is corporations and capital who have made their subjects fat, don't you?  If food production production were strictly regulated to prevent its control by large corporations, and workers were given several months holiday per year, high unionized wages, and 20 hour working weeks, plus good transport (eliminating every-day use of cars), few people would be fat.

I've seen too many 4'10 people from the Warsaw Pact to believe that line about socialism. The people were skinny but that's due to scarcity.

I know you're out of country, so perhaps you haven't seen this, but have you seen what the typical American does in their leisure time? Crappy food and waaaayyy too much sitting around. If anything more leisure time would make the problem worse since the manual labour types would eat the same food and do less physical work.

[King]

I don't think we should consider meals to be leisure time.