About 10 per cent of the men and 9 per cent of the women in the survey

About 10 per cent of the men and 9 per cent of the women in the survey report some element of homosexuality in their adult lives. That’s either behaviour, sexual feeling towards people of the same sex or a self-definition of being homosexual.”Under 50 per cent of the men and women who’ve had a homosexual experience since the age of 18 define themselves as homosexual or bisexual.”That’s about 5 per cent of the population who have had a homosexual experience since they were 18. Less than half of these people, however, define themselves as gay, lesbian or bisexual.”The survey found no evidence that homosexuals were likely to be significantly more promiscuous than heterosexuals.. The dramatic changes in the age structure of Britain’s population have been largely ignored by banks, building societies and the insurance and financial industries, according to new research. The trend towards early retirement, coupled with an increase in life expectancy have created a “marketing manager’s dream” – a huge and wealthy consumer market.
Yet while industry “bombards” youth with products and advertising, it patronises the retired, lumping them all together as a single block and treating them as “backward children rather than intelligent adults”, according to the market research organisation Mintel.Most financial institutions actively market their products to people only until they retire, Charles Adriaenssens, Mintel’s financial analyst, said. He said the generally held opinion that sexuality was easily classified did not stand up to analysis.”Somehow in our society we have come to think that homosexuality is a singular and simple phenomenon that can be summarised as a single number.”The debates have assumed we have something that is absolutely clear when we talk about homosexuality in that all people can be divided into two or at most three camps, as homosexual, heterosexual or bisexual. Similarly, less than 40 per cent of women who had had sex with other females since the age of 18 said they considered themselves lesbian or bisexual, the US National Health and Social Life Survey found after interviews with a representative sample of 150 million Americans.
Details of the survey were released by Stuart Michaels, a researcher at the University of Chicago who helped manage the survey.

Its findings contradict the view of an unambiguous distinction between heterosexuals and homosexuals, writes Steve Connor. A powerful immunosuppressive agent, it is today the basis of the entire organ-transplant industry.”There is an urgent need to make a world catalogue of species alive today and humanity’s goal should be “to carry as much as the rest of life we can through the bottleneck of the next 50 years of [human] overpopulation and environmental destruction,” Professor Wilson said.He added: “It is not too late to make a big difference.”. Half of men who have had sex with other men do not consider themselves gay or bisexual, according to the largest sex survey in the world. Even on optimistic assumptions, Professor Wilson said, the extent of the “haemorrhaging” in the rainforests meant at least 27,000 species are doomed each year, that is 74 every day and three each hour.”Most of the populations of organisms, species and races of species, disappear before we can study them, in many cases even before we can provide them with a scientific name.”Professor Wilson said 5 per cent of the world’s land surface was burnt each year and tropical forests, the richest repositories of life, were being reduced by about 1 per cent a year.”They now occupy 6 per cent of the land surface, down by a half from their original cover before the onslaught of humanity.”He cited further examples of mass extinctions caused by human interference, including the loss of 20 per cent of all bird species in the last 2,000 years,and said that more than half of the 266 unique species of freshwater fish living in the Malaysian peninsular have also gone.Professor Wilson also told the association about 90 types of plants living on a single mountain range in Ecuador which were extinguished by farmers in the space of eight years.He said the true number of species alive today was unknown and estimates varied between 10 million and 100 million.Each species played a role in the ecology of the planet and must be preserved not just because they were “masterpieces of evolution” but because of the vital role they played in enriching the soil and in purifying the air we breathe and the water we drink, he said.”Humanity cannot reduce its forests and fields to a small number of favoured species, and expect to feel safe afterwards.”For more practical reasons there was a need to hold on to “every scrap of biodiversity”, he said.”One of my favourite examples in surgery is cyclosporin, a complex substance derived from an obscure fungus found in Norway. This number, however, is considered to be a gross underestimate and the Home Office has undertaken a study to established the real figure.

The Prison Reform Trust believes it could be about 350.There is particular concern that the virus is being spread through the prison system by sharing of needles for drugs.. At least three species are becoming extinct each hour in the tropical rainforests, according to a new analysis of man-made extinction by a leading scientist. Professor Edward O Wilson, a world-renowned evolutionary biologist at Harvard University, made one of the gloomiest predictions to date on the effect ofhuman activity on the world’s biodiversity – the thin crust of life that inhabits the outer shell of the planet.
“Humanity has pushed the pace of extinction world-wide to thousands of times faster than the natural rate,” he told the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Atlanta, Georgia. Because the death occurred in prison, an inquest will be held on Monday.The Prison Service estimates that there are about 35 inmates in England and Wales prisons with the HIV virus. His final victim was a hospital worker.When police broke into his flat in Chelsea, west London, they found torture equipment, including manacles and whips.During the trial the court heard that Lupu had told police he had an “urge to kill”.At Lupo’s trial, the jury was told that the shock of learning he had the Aids virus had created a “callous rationale” in which he developed a burning hatred for other homosexuals.Lupo died on Sunday in the hospital wing of Frankland Prison, Co Durham.

The third victim was an unidentified tramp, aged about 60, who was attacked as he left a gay club. A few weeks later he used the sock to kill an unemployed waiter. Within five hours he spotted Lupo in the Prince of Wales pub in Brixton, south London, and an arrest was made.Lupo’s first victim was a railway worker whom he had met in a gay bar and later strangled with a silk sock in a derelict flat. He also attempted to murder two other people.
Lupo cruised gay pubs and clubs in London searching for sex and victims. He had sadistic sexual tastes and mutilated his victims after throttling them.He was jailed for life at the Old Bailey in July 1987 after admitting the killings and attempted murders and spent the last seven years of his life in a prison hospital wing suffering Aids-related illnesses.The Italian born Lupo, a former fashion boutique owner, was captured in a police operation which used one of his attempted murder victims as “live bait”.David Cole, a British Rail worker, who was nearly strangled in a south London lorry park, agreed to visit pubs he had cruised in before meeting Lupo. A serial killer who strangled four gay men in revenge for contracting the HIV virus has died from an Aids-related illness, it emerged yesterday.