Female bisexual survey

Since , social scientists have studied the General Social Survey to chart the complexities of social change in the United States. The survey, which is conducted every couple years, asks respondents their attitudes on topics ranging from race relations to drug use. In , the survey started including a question on sexual identity. As sociologists who study sexuality, we've noticed how more and more women are reporting that they're bisexual. In the 10 years that the General Social Survey has included a question on sexual identity, rates of identification among gay men, lesbian women and bisexual men in the U. Bisexual identifying women, on the other hand, account for virtually all of the growth among those who say they're lesbian, gay or bisexual.

Almost a quarter of young black women in the US identify as bisexual — a proportion which is nearly three times higher than it was a decade ago. The General Social Survey , which is carried out every couple of years, asks people about their attitudes on matters spanning from race relations to drug use. Bisexual identifying women account for almost all of the growth among those who say they are lesbian, gay or bisexual. Out of all of the women who responded to the study, more than one in 18 identified as bisexual. On the other hand, only one in 65 did ten years ago. The proportion of those women who were bisexual was much higher among young people — with more than one in eight women from the ages of 18 to 34 identifying as bisexual in the latest survey.

The Office of National Statistics has released its latest data on sexual identities in the UK , and some striking patterns jump out — especially when it comes to bisexuality. Women are more likely to identity as bisexual 0. That last finding chimes with other studies in the UK and the US — but why should this be?

Women who responded to The Irish Times sex survey were more likely to identify as bisexual rather than lesbian, while the converse applied to male respondents. A striking finding of The Irish Times sex survey is that same-sex attraction among heterosexual women is far higher than previously thought, with 45 per cent of to year-old heterosexual women — nearly half — having been attracted to another woman. Thirty-five per cent of to year-old heterosexual women and 24 per cent of women between 50 and 64 also indicated that they had experienced same-sex attraction.