the fuckgraph

It's like the Where's Waldo of gay sex.

It's interesting that only one out of the lot of them was (at least within the last 6 months) gay. All the rest with same-sex relations were bisexual (at least within the last 6 months).

And those are the few bisexuals. Because the gays... Well those are a complete graph basically.

There’s also two male students between 4 o’clock and 5 o’clock on the ring, but I don’t actually see the connecting line

I only found one, thanks

They're probably in touch with their emotions and express them in a healthy way and aren't afraid of intimacy outside of sex and romantic relationships

I was just about to point that out!

Makoto Itou

Alpha male

Would you consider that a romantic or sexual relation? Or both?

It's the midwest, so probably a lot in hiding

I am only seeing one!

I kept looking at that too. It's crazy to me that there are only 2 cycles in the graph and one is the big accidental one. It honestly makes me think that either something must be wrong with the data, or it's reflective of some deep principle of math or sexuality (e.g. that people won't fuck around within their close social grouping nearly as readily as they will with people on the outskirts of it).

I find that extremely unlikely to occur. There's just no way it's a single link circle.

That circle is just the scientific representation of the old Tom Leherer song!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6qFG0uop9k

It's a 90s high school, somewhat rural and religious, according to the article. Either there really were few homosexual relationships there, or the students didn't want to reveal them.

You think?

I think people feel liberated to say they're gay these days, so there are much more people claiming to be gay than in previous decades. On the other hand, there's still a lot of homophobes and also quite some biphobes around, so there's probably a lot of bi people that present as hetero or even gay.

I'd assume that most people are at least a little bi, and that they'll try that out in high school even if they later decide they won't pursue it.

The line does not necessarily mean they had sex.

There are 63 dedicated couples, nothing more

They'd have to lie about who they slept with, and I expect the other person might have something to say about that if it was not true.

I wonder if they verified each claim from both sides.

Edit: it's a scientific paper, so there's no need to wonder!

In fig. 2, and in all discussions presented here, all romantic and sexual relationship nominations linking students are included, whether or not the nomination from i to j was reciprocated with a nomination from j to i.

Sexual or romantic partners.

I “dated” a classmate for a month at 14 until he wanted me to sit on his lap and I broke up with him because I felt like I’d be too heavy but didn’t want to admit that, so I didn’t know how to talk to him about it.

If you’d asked me at 14, if he was a romantic partner, on god I’d have said yes.

...within the previous 6 months.

Is it that odd?

I had 5 or 6, and if you count kissing a lot more. By now I've had several more and if you count kissing I've completely lost count.

For reference, I'm not particularly attractive and I'm right on the border of normie but not quite. I think my weird friends think I'm a normie and my normie friends think I'm a nerd.

There were guys I went to high school with who had far, far more sex than I ever did. More than I was even interested in because they'd sleep with just about anyone who was willing at any party.

By 12th grade, some of the "cool kids" I went to school with probably had 10-15+ sexual partners under their belt.

If you look at this a little closer, you'll notice that there aren't actually that many highly connected nodes.
The big structure is mostly composed of single link chains.

I imagine they has to be confirmed from both sides...

This lady is DOING WELL...

Nah, that was college lmao