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.
  • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
    803·
    4 months ago

    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!

  • thebestaquaman@lemmy.world
    31·
    4 months ago

    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.

  • HelixDab2@lemm.ee
    174·
    4 months ago

    I mean, yes…? That’s the way sexuality works. Very few people are completely straight or completely gay. A fantastic example is prison; you put a bunch of guys in prison, and most of them are going to be having sex with other men, at least sometimes. It’s not that they’re not straight in any normal sense, but that the overall sex drive is strong enough to overcome gender preferences.

    It’s just not a big deal. Let people be people, as long as everyone involved is consenting, and they aren’t causing direct, immediate harm to other people.

    • Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee
      11·
      4 months ago

      Kinda wild to bring up the sexual repression that we punish our prisoners with, that contributes to the negative outcomes of our “correctional” system, and conclude that it’s “not a big deal”.

      I know what you’re trying to say, but this is the worst example I can imagine.

    • chuckleslord@lemmy.world
      42·
      4 months ago

      The big deal is that kids are comfortable saying as such. Heteronormativity is still very much the norm

  • Zerlyna@lemmy.worldEnglish
    127·
    4 months ago

    I remember a saying “every female is a few drinks away from a girl on girl encounter.”

    • The Snark Urge@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      4 months ago

      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.

    • eatthecake@lemmy.world
      184·
      4 months ago

      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.

  • sudneo@lemm.ee
    2·
    4 months ago

    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?

    • Kerred@lemmy.world
      3·
      4 months ago

      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.

      • sudneo@lemm.ee
        3·
        4 months ago

        Yeah but I could only find past issues of the Global Sex Survey. I am specifically interested in the scale used for questions (and their results).

        Maybe it will take some time for the report to be published though

        • chaogomu@lemmy.world
          2·
          4 months ago

          The scale is likely the Kinsey scale. A 0-6 scale of sexuality. Zero is completely straight and six is completely gay.

          Most people find themselves somewhere in the middle, even if they don’t admit it.

          I’m somewhere in the range of 1–1.5

          I’m firmly attracted to the opposite gender, but might make an exception if the person had a personality that was super compatible with my own. But it’s not something I’m going to seek out.

  • Aetherion@lemmy.worldEnglish
    37·
    4 months ago

    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.