More USAians engaing in homosexual experimentation.

An interesting paper in Archives of Sexual Behavior called Changes in American Adults’ Reported Same-Sex Sexual Experiences and Attitudes, 1973–2014. The paper uses data from the University of Chicago's General Social Survey, an ongoing survey of around 30,000 U.S. adults conducted since 1972.

It seems USAians are becoming more comfortable with homosexuality in general; 11% rated it as "not wrong at all" in 1973and 13% in 1990, today the figure is 49%, 63% amongst young adults.
And while the percentage of people having sex exclusively with partners of the same-sex partners hasn't changed noticeable, bisexuality and sexual experimentation are far more common. Those who reported having at least one same-sex partner as an adult more than doubled between the early 1990s and early 2010s; 3.6% to 8.7% for women and 4.5% to 8.2% for men. The increase was even greater among whites and those in the South and Midwest USA.
The number of Americans engaging in bisexual behavior rose from 3.1% to 7.7% and some surveys show almost a third of young Americans are bisexual to some degree.

Fascinating.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Abstract We examined change over time in the reported prevalence of men having sex with men and women having sex with women and acceptance of those behaviors in the nationally representative General Social Survey of U.S. adults (n’s = 28,161–33,728, ages 18–96 years), 1972–2014. The number of U.S. adults who had at least one same-sex partner since age 18 doubled between the early 1990s and early 2010s (from 3.6 to 8.7 % for women and from 4.5 to 8.2 % for men). Bisexual behavior (having sex with both male and female partners) increased from 3.1 to 7.7 %, accounting for much of the rise, with little consistent change in those having sex exclusively with same-sex partners. The increase in same-sex partners was larger for women than for men, consistent with erotic plasticity theory. Attitudes toward same-sex sexual behavior also became substantially more accepting, d = .75, between the early 1970s and early 2010s. By 2014, 49 % of American adults believed that same-sex sexual activity was “not wrong at all,” up from 11 % in 1973 and 13 % in 1990. Controlling for acceptance reduced, but did not eliminate, the increase in same-sex behavior over time. Mixed effects (hierarchical linear modeling) analyses separating age, time period, and cohort showed that the trends were primarily due to time period. Increases in same-sex sexual behavior were largest in the South and Midwest and among Whites, were mostly absent among Blacks, and were smaller among the religious. Overall, same-sex sexual behavior has become both more common (or at least more commonly reported) and more accepted.

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