Two new studies, one performed in the USA and the other in the UK, have revealed some interesting results in millennials and how they identify their own sexuality.
First up, for the US survey, performed by GLAAD, over 2,000 adults of all ages were asked about their sexuality and gender, and the results showed that millenials were almost twice as likely to identify on the LGBTQ scale when compared to other age groups.
- On average, 12% of entire population identified as LGBTQ.
- 20% of 18-34 year-olds identified as “not heterosexual”.
- This fell to 12% for 35-51 year-olds, 7% for 52-71 year-olds, and 5% for 72-year-olds and over.
Of that 20% of 18-34 year olds, that broke down to: 6% identified as bisexual, 4% as asexual, 3% as strictly gay/lesbian, 2% as pansexual, and 5% as unsure/questioning.
Meanwhile, in the UK survey, performed by YouGov, those figures are even higher.
On average across the survey, 23% of those surveyed registered themselves as something other than “completely straight”, with that number rising to 46% in 18-to-24 year-olds.
Those surveyed were asked to place themselves on the Kinsey Scale, which designates a number to a level of sexual preference, with 0 being 100% heterosexual and 6 being 100% homosexual, with 1 to 5 being somewhere on the bisexual scale.
43% of people aged 18-24 placed themselves somewhere between 1 to 5, and while on 23% of those who assigned themselves as 1 on the scale had a same-sex experience, they were asked could conceivably be attracted to, have sex with or have a relationship with someone of the same sex if the right person came along, and self-assigned 1’s were 35% more likely to say yes to this question than self-assigned 0’s.
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