The Prevalence of Love-Shyness

     My own analysis has convinced me that at any given point in time
about 1.5 percent of all American heterosexual males suffer from severe
love-shyness. Thus chronic love-shyness among heterosexual males is
probably somewhat less commonplace than is homosexuality. However,
the total number of American males afflicted at any given point in time
is actually quite high. I would place the figure at approximately 1,695,000.
In other words, I think there is good reason to suspect that there are
presently in excess of one-and-one-half million severely love-shy males
resident in the United States. This estimate includes males of all ages.
It does not include women, and it does not include homosexuals of either
gender. Further, I think there is good reason to suspect that the large,
urban centers of the United States attract more than their proportional
share of the love-shy. This is particularly true for the New York, Los
Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, New Orleans, Chicago, and Seattle
metropolitan areas.