# How many dopers are straight since 1973? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 17, 2012, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-dopers-are-straight-since-1973/619097 "2012-04-17T23:48:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SDMBKL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sdmbkl/32/7297_2.png) [@SDMBKL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SDMBKL)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2012, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-dopers-are-straight-since-1973/619097/1 "2012-04-17T23:48:53Z")
How many dopers are straight and fighting ignorance since 1973? Hint: It’s a pun. Answer however you like, whatever you think it means. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![robert\_columbia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@robert\_columbia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robert_columbia)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-dopers-are-straight-since-1973/619097/2 "2012-04-18T02:40:05Z")
My father has been straight since 1977, but unfortunately he still can’t donate blood because he spent too much time in the UK in the 1990’s. ---
**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-dopers-are-straight-since-1973/619097/3 "2012-04-18T02:42:02Z")
Well, not me, as I’ve only been around since 1975. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-dopers-are-straight-since-1973/619097/4 "2012-04-18T12:51:23Z")
I’ve been straight since 1967, but there was that brief _curious_ period in the early 80’s. As far as fighting ignorance, I prefer to just stick my head in the sand and pretend that I don’t need to know the stuff I don’t know. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-dopers-are-straight-since-1973/619097/5 "2012-04-18T15:31:08Z")
I was rather crooked in 1973. ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-dopers-are-straight-since-1973/619097/6 "2012-04-18T16:22:22Z")
I experimented with stupidity in the mid-80s when I moved to San Francisco. ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-dopers-are-straight-since-1973/619097/7 "2012-04-18T16:29:14Z")
I grew up outside Chicago and seem to remember the column in the 70’s. Been straight since '66, though since I’ve never tested the waters I suppose in reality I’m living a life of ignorance. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-dopers-are-straight-since-1973/619097/8 "2012-04-18T16:38:33Z")
Hmm. My first boyfriend was in kindergarten, but that was 1974. Close enough to count? ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-dopers-are-straight-since-1973/619097/9 "2012-04-18T17:29:49Z")
I haven’t been straight since I was 11 years old. That was slightly before 1973. Then I got curves. The other girls were jealous of my curves, the boys wanted to feel my curves. Curves never really go away, but they do head south. Back then they were smooth, tight, firm curves, now… not so much. I prefer my men straight though. Fighting ignorance - I live my life in such a normal (boring) way that people are shocked to find out that this I am a Pagan, cougar, mud shark. Makes them reconsider their views on religion, age and interracial dating.