This percentage approaches the 37% famous sexologist Alfred Kinsey found as the figure for American males who had achieved orgasm in a homosexual act; and it is of course much more than the 5% quoted by many modern studies as the likely percentage of exclusive homosexuals.

Perhaps so many Iranians have gay experiences for the same reason that so many men have gay sex in prison: because the sexes are segregated there. Or perhaps it is because Middle-Eastern men are hot.

The study offers a formal repudiation to President Ahmadinejad’s remarks two years ago in a speech at Columbia University. “We don’t have homoesexuals like in your country,” he said as the unruly audience began to snicker and boo.

Human rights groups estimate that in the past three decades, between 3,000 and 4,000 gay Iranian men have been executed by hanging, as prescribed by fundamentalist interpretations of Islam. These hangings continue today.

One thing’s for certain: we’ll take Christian fundies over Muslim fundies any day.

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New study claims 16% of Iranian men have had gay relationships (Pink News UK)