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Quick math
There are about 4 billion women in the world And about 4 billion men.
About 5% of men are gay, let's round that up to 10% to account for closeted gays. I'll use the same value for women.
So we've got 3.6 billion straight women vs 0.4 billion gay men.
9 times more straight women than gay men.
So a gay man would have to, on average, give a blowjob 9 times more frequently than a woman to break even.
So the question is, how often does the average woman give a blowjob? Let's go conservatively and say one a week? Some will be more, some will be less. Which means gay men will need to give a blowjob more than once a day on average, which seems unlikely.
But let's say it's far lower than what I'm thinking, if the average woman gives a blowjob once a month, gay men would need to give a blowjob every 3 days. That's certainly achievable.
I think the answer is straight women, in my experience gay men aren't as horny as people would have you believe, and women are way hornier than people would have you believe.
However, I say this as a married straight guy with a lot of women friends and a few gay friends so take this with a grain of salt
Pfft. Bro, I've blown 6 men in 1 day. I'm a dude. I doubt women would be up for a blowjob a week, but I know plenty of gay men who would do it every day of the week if they could.
I can convince my wife to blow me once every 4 to 5 times we have sex. We have sex probably every week and some change on average. So once a month, with a 2 dry months a year
It's not about how many men you've blown in a day, although mad respect, 6 is impressive, but on average how many blowjobs you give.
If you blow 6 men a day and then none for a couple weeks, that's 3 blowjobs a week on average. Which is strong, but the average straight woman only has to give a blowjob every 3 weeks to beat that, which I suspect is easily achieved.
My pansexual roommate ones showed me an app/website I can’t remember the name of, for gay men to advertise that they want to hook up, in real time.
There were hundreds of bubbles, with like 5 more showing up every second and some disappearing. And the thing only shows you the local ones so that’s 100 men just within our part of a relatively small US city. (Tbf, lots of them were from within nearby hotels so not necessarily local people)
But the point is all of this is live, dozens of men advertising themselves, people looking for people to hook up with people right at that moment, and that’s just in like a 5 block radius.
I can’t say gay men are hornier than women, but I’d be willing to bet gay men probably get the most action per capita out of any gender-sexuality combo on the planet.
Edit: Found it the site is called “Sniffies” (I don’t know why it’s called that and I don’t really want to) but if you’re a man into men and want to advertise your dick size and your hotel room number to random strangers on the internet for a chance to get laid, this is the site for you lol
Can you give me an idea of where in the world you live, because I think I want to live there.
While I don't disagree with your conclusions, I am not sure about your assumptions that got you there. Even if we agree that we are talking about a very limited population group like: people living in North America, You assumptions seem to be based upon a fairly young group of sexually active people without children. I am not taking a swipe at women, gays, or marriage here, I am merely pointing out that there is a real divergence in the life styles and priorities of people who are actively having/trying to have kids versus those that are not. Yes, it is also the same for gay couples trying to adopt or do the surrogacy thing. But I am not sure that group is big enough yet to effectively skew the numbers. I guess what I am getting at is that are a lot stresses and time factors that effect how often you have time and energy to dive or have some dive face first into your genitals.
I think were going per capital. Pun intended