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==Prevalence== {{Globalize|section|date=February 2012}} Some believe that open relationships occur more frequently in certain demographics, such as the young rather than the old in America, including, more specifically, the college-educated middle-class rather than the uneducated working-class, or people of certain ethnic and/or other racial minorities.<ref name="Hollander1974" /> According to the 2012 National Survey of Sexual Health and Behavior, 4% of respondents reported being in an open relationship.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last1=Levine |first1=Ethan Czuy |last2=Herbenick |first2=Debby |last3=Martinez |first3=Omar |last4=Fu |first4=Tsung-Chieh |last5=Dodge |first5=Brian |date=July 2018 |title=Open Relationships, Nonconsensual Nonmonogamy, and Monogamy Among U.S. Adults: Findings from the 2012 National Survey of Sexual Health and Behavior |journal=Archives of Sexual Behavior |language=en |volume=47 |issue=5 |pages=1439β1450 |doi=10.1007/s10508-018-1178-7 |pmid=29696552 |pmc=5958351 |issn=0004-0002}}</ref> It was also found that males and [[LGBT]] individuals are more likely to report being in an open relationship,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://drjarryd.medium.com/non-monogamy-b0402b5b8261|title=Non-Monogamy|author=Dr. Jarryd Thomas Willis|publisher=[[Medium (website)|Medium]]|date=20 February 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230408114925/https://drjarryd.medium.com/non-monogamy-b0402b5b8261|archive-date=2023-04-08|url-status=live}}</ref> with 33% of gay men, 23% of bisexual men, 5% of lesbian females, and 22% of bisexual females reporting an open relationship.<ref name=":0" /> A 1974 study showed that male students who either cohabit or live in a communal group are more likely to become involved in open relationships than females, and are still more interested in the concept than females even if not participating in open relationships.<ref name="Hollander1974" /> A survey taken by gay men's "health and life magazine", ''FS Magazine'', of the 1,006 gay men they surveyed 41% are in, or have previously experienced, an open relationship. Of the men who are in an open relationship, 75% believe that open relationships are great.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Duffy |first=Nick |date=3 February 2016 |title=Nearly half of gay men have had an open relationship |work=[[PinkNews]] |url=http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2016/02/03/nearly-half-of-gay-men-have-had-an-open-relationship/ |access-date=6 February 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Haggas |first=Stuart |date=February 2016 |title=Open Relationships Uncovered |work=FS Magazine |issue=152 |url=https://www.gmfa.org.uk/fs152-open-relationships-uncovered |access-date=6 February 2016}}</ref> Many couples within open relationships are dual-career, meaning that both primary partners have a stable job and/or a career. Both men and women in these, especially in closed groups, are also more likely to be in managerial jobs. Most also are either [[childfree]], or post child-rearing.<ref name="Ramey" />
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