Female Gamers 5 Times More Likely to be Bisexual

If you’re a male gamer who has been looking for love in all the wrong places, it might be because you’re spending too much time playing MMOs. Or, depending on your fantasy woman, maybe that’s exactly what you should be doing. You see, not only is nearly half of the Everquest II gaming population female, but they’re apparently much more likely to be bisexual than non-EQ II players, online surveys suggest. According to no less than 2,400 completed web-based surveys, females account for 40 percent of the EQ II gaming community. The surveys also found that female EQ II players display “an unusually high level of bisexuality,” more than five times that of the “general population.” “These are not people who are following strict gender stereotypes,” said lead researcher Scott Caplan. “I think what you would find in this population are going to be people who are in other ways less traditional than the majority population.” – from MaximumPc

Following a recent EverQuest II survey that suggested MMO players were sad but not overweight, another study has found that females and bisexuality may be more prevalent in the game than one may expect. After tallying the results of over 2,400 completed web-based surveys, researchers told BBC News that females make up roughly 40% of the EverQuest II “gaming population.” Furthermore, those women were found to display “an unusually high level of bisexuality,” beating out the rate of “general population” bisexuality by more than five times. – from Shacknews

Perhaps in support of this the survey revealed an unusually high level of bisexuality among the women who took part in the study – over five times higher than the general population. “These are not people who are following strict gender stereotypes,” said Prof Caplan. “I think that the game itself is right now a very non-traditional activity for women, and so I think what you would find in this population are going to be people who are in other ways less traditional than the majority population.” – from BBC