Here, a quarter of those asked considered themselves bisexual to some degree – that makes sense, given given society became more sexually liberal during the ’70s and ’80s. The survey of 1,000 American adults used the Kinsey Scale-developed by Albert Kinsey in the 1940s-and asked respondents to plot themselves on a scale of zero (exclusively heterosexual) to six (exclusively homosexual).
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Almost a third of Americans under 30 do not identify as 100% straight, a new survey has found. 16% of American adults say that they fall somewhere in the middle. While 80% of all Americans say that they are completely heterosexual or homosexual only 66% of under-30s say the same. Among British adults overall, 76% considered themselves fully heterosexual, 4% fully homosexual, and 19% somewhere along the spectrum (anyone who categorized themselves as 1 to 5).
Younger Americans are noticeably less likely than their elders to put themselves in a firm category.
The older someone is the less likely they are to say that they have fluid sexual attractions.
YouGov posted the results of a similar British study earlier this week that found that half of respondents aged 18-24 identified as non-heterosexual. For straight women, 15% have had a same-sex experience.
The research noted that ‘a large number of Americans who classify themselves as heterosexual still admit to having had same sex experiences’.
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In poll results published Sunday by YouGov, a full 49% of 18-24 year olds identified as something other than exclusively heterosexual.
