I was somewhat surprised to find that, while A4A was less white overall, Asian-Americans were still grossly underrepresented, while to a lesser extent so were Latinos. Thus, I expected there to be a stronger showing of "profiles of color" on A4A than on Manhunt. But SF does not have such a large population, so it is more racial diverse. In most cities in the US with large Af-Am populations, A4A is crowded with Black guys. In contrast, Adam4Adam (A4A) has a history of being a predominantly African-American website in many places. I've been a user of Manhunt for over five years, and in every city I've been in, most guys on there have been white. This data didn't particularly surprise me, as I've said. Manhunt San Francisco Profiles Racial Demographics: Latinos and especially Blacks are similarly underrepresented: Similarly whereas almost one-third of SF generally is Asian of some descent, less than 10% of profiles were labeled as such. So I wasn't surprised when the data sifted out to reveal that over 70% of profiles on Manhunt were labeled as white - they're grossly overrepresented on Manhunt versus the general SF population. For folks who've logged onto the site, you probably have noticed that it's a predominantly white website. With that leap of faith behind us, let's look at Manhunt's overall racial distribution. Getting any solid population-level data on LGBT people is tricky - on what criteria do you count them? By what method? But we'll take a leap of faith here and say that we would expect that men who have sex with men in San Francisco are probably racially distributed along similar lines to the general population in SF. It's hard to estimate what the demographics of San Francisco's gay male population look like. As the graph below shows ( source), less than 50% of San Francisco's population is white, and the city has large Asian-American and Latino communities: San Francisco is a fairly racially diverse city, compared to many places in the United States. So, before we can assess anything about these websites, it's useful to know what the demographics of the city itself. Overview: SF versus Manhunt versus Adam4Adam That is to say, while individual pieces of data are bound to inaccurate, looking at how data changes (in this case, with increasing age) can reveal some interesting information. I use phrases like "profiles of color" below to emphasize that fact.īut despite that, I believe that the data is still compelling on a trend level. People may have several profiles, or may be less than forthcoming in their profiles. What I've sampled here is 17,299 profiles from Adam4Adam, and 7,823 profiles from Manhunt - all in San Francisco proper. Now, it's appropriate here to urge a heavy dose of caution. Today I'm going to talk about the racial diversity on these sites, and in particular a finding that surprised me: on both sites, racial diversity decreases dramatically as age increases. These websites both include extremely powerful search functions, whereby users can search their users through a number of criteria: height, weight, age, dick size, etc.
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This will be the first in a series of reports based on a project I'm working on using the Manhunt and Adam4Adam databases.