Nano-nonsense

What separates the successful from the unsuccessful is the efficiency with which you do/learn the easy things.

I’m hoping to prove that it isn’t because bisexual women are secretly straight, but actually just because of population statistics.

I am in the UK so I have used the UK office of national statistics data from 2015 for this. I have had to omit asexuals and many other groups from this, not because I didn’t want to include them, but just because I couldn’t find reliable data on them.

Taking the population of the UK over the age of 20 (ie. of actually datable age) there were 24754886 men and 25437414 women in the UK. This gives a total datable population of 50192300 adults who a bisexual female could theoretically be attracted to. So far so good, looks like there’s plenty of fish in the bisexual’s sea.

But now let us take into account the sexual preference of those fish to see whether they would be attracted back to the bisexual female in question. Let’s make a list of those who might fancy our sexy bi lady back:

- straight men (97.9% of men)

- bisexual men (0.5% of men)

- lesbian women (0.7% of women)

- bisexual women (0.8% of women)

You can see where this is going. But converting those percentages into numbers of people for whom a feasible relationship could occur with the bisexual female gives:

- straight men (24235033)

- bisexual men (123774)

- lesbian women (178062)

- bisexual women (203499)

This gives a total of 24740369 total mates for our lovely lady, approximately half of the number of people she could be attracted to. Pretty much all of the people who are not attracted to her back are straight women with a small proportion coming from gay men.

So what proportion of the theoretically possible mates for our bisexual female are also female?

Well 24358808 men could be attracted to her back but only 381561 women. 

That works out as a 98.5% chance that she will end up finding reciprocal romance with a man, and only a 1.5% chance that she will find a reciprocally loving relationship with a woman.

I couldn’t find any statistics on the percentage of bi women in relationships with other women so I can’t compare this to reality.

But it seems to me that if a bi woman is in a relationship with a man, it’s probably because she’s got a significantly better chance of meeting a man who likes her back than a woman who does.