Nearly half of 18-24-year-olds say they're 'not fully straight', survey finds
Nearly half of 18-24-year-olds say they're 'not fully straight', survey finds
Nearly half of 18-24-year-olds globally say they’re “not fully straight” and more people are open to sexual diversity, a survey has found.
This is no fucking surprise - sexuality is a spectrum and it's rare to be at a full extreme of one of those. I'm glad this new generation will be less ashamed of themselves though!
I'm straight, 100%. I know because I've been very close to trying, and figured out I was too straight to go through with it. If you had asked me when I was 18-24, I would probably not be so sure. Being "bicurious" around that age seems to be quite common, but is probably (my speculation) not closely linked to the proportion of people who are actually not straight.
Somebody who is sexually attracted to the same sex but doesn't to through with it is not 100% straight.
It's at least 15% gay.
In the last balance patch they buffed it to 18%
in the light of new hard evidence (very hard!) I have to update my priors to 23% gay
I had something similar and was mildly crestfallen when it turned out that dating a dude feels extremely similar to dating women. I thought it would be like... orange-flavored? Or at least spicier? Religions hyped it up for so long, I thought there'd be some sort of difference. Kinda just feels like dating a best friend, regardless of gender. :)
I still find women attractive, but I'll be damned if this relationship with my bf isn't the best one I've ever had.
awesome
I wonder what the survey questions were like? I mean, it's completely reasonable to find someone of the same sex attractive... There's a pic of Pierce Brosnan floating around the fediverse right now and that man is dapper AF. Doesn't mean I want to have his babies but he's sure as hell attractive. So if someone put a question on a survey that asked if you can find someone of the same sex attractive, would that qualify as "not fully straight"? Even if you have zero interest outside of that admiration of someone's physical appearance? I'd assume it would be impossible to be "fully straight" for most anyone if that were the criteria...
I remember a saying “every female is a few drinks away from a girl on girl encounter.”
That's just a male fantasy that they love to project onto all women and i'm so fucking sick of it. Just like the 'everyone loves boobs' garbage.
There's sometimes a performative aspect to it that isn't quite the same thing as attraction. Though I suppose it depends how "straightness" is being defined?
I think the cultural concept of straightness is just getting some of the starch taken out of it. There's more room for ambiguity in human behavior than a lot of people realize.
This is somehow evidence that society is falling apart. /s
That's interesting! I am curious to know what the scale was (what does it mean being fully straight?), if someone find the report and shares the link, that would be great. I looked for it but I could only find summaries.
Was this information collected also in previous surveys? Is there a trend we can observe?
Survey done by Durex. Durex was also that news site "ally of the year". Interesting. Usually whenever I think of polls I feel like people who aren't directly interested in the topic don't take the poll.
Like if you said there was a polls about video games, I might take it. But a poll about guns id probably pass on.
But I welcome a more open culture, so would be neat if true.
And yet they show lesbians as a thumbnail/front picture. It’s obvious, that todays society clearly favours women’s bisexuality right out of sexual desires and (yes of course) the liberation of women. Bisexuality of Man are still beeing held back in society’s discourse, not just because it’s mainly without „general“ sexual desire by the ruling class which also reproduces its patriarchal world believes, but because todays feminism is all about empowering only women to fight against this and not empowering men to fight against the system that is also suppressing them. It’s true, that we need what current feminism is doing right now more then ever, but I want to live in a future where boys are also getting good grades in schools and have the same sexual freedom based on cultural expressions as women have, without being the only sex that lives less long and lies in war trenches.
Bisexuality of Man are still beeing held back in society’s discourse
Saying this while eating a big bowl of popcorn and watching Challengers
Most of the other half are lying to themselves.