Same-Sex Partners: The Social Demography of Sexual Orientation

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Buy with confidence, excellent customer service! Used - Good Quantity available: Log-in or create an account first! Add to cart Add to wishlist. This suggests that girls may be more likely than boys to rely on factors other than sexual behavior, such as romantic affections or social consideration, 38 when adopting bisexual identity labels. Asians, for whom little is known in the literature regarding sexual orientation, were more likely than White youths to indicate being unsure of their sexual orientation.

If longitudinal, prospective data on predominantly White youths generalize to Asian youths, 32 the unsure Asians will eventually identify as heterosexual. The data indicated that Black youths were more likely than White youths to identify as gay or lesbian, a pattern that had been noted in the National Survey of Family Growth, although only among boys. For gay or lesbian identities, Black youths had a smaller association than White youths with same-sex behavior, but for bisexual identity Black youths had a larger association with behavior.

Latino youths showed the same pattern as Black youths in terms of a smaller association between same-sex behavior and adoption of a gay or lesbian identity label, compared with White youths. Differences in the definitions of these labels could explain the patterns found in this study.

In our cross-sectional study, the prevalence of sexual-minority identity and behavior at each age varied by sex. Two distinct patterns were apparent for girls: Among girls, the prevalence of bisexuality increased at early and middle adolescence before reaching an inflection point. The lesbian pattern was more consistent by age in prevalence of identity and behavior.

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For boys, a reverse pattern was apparent; there was an increase in the prevalence of gay identity and behavior in early and middle adolescence, but a relatively consistent prevalence throughout adolescence for bisexual identity and behavior. An important limitation of these data is their cross-sectional nature, only allowing the estimate of prevalence at each age, rather than developmental trajectories. Comparable findings are rare, but they suggest that additional study is needed to assess developmental patterns, preferably with longitudinal data.

Add Health found a constant prevalence of only same-sex behavior over time whereas we found a trend toward increased prevalence.

For boys, increasing prevalence of behavior with both sexes or only with the same sex over time was apparent. Another study involving 4 waves of data, with youths spanning ages 12 through 25 years over time, found that sexual identity was relatively consistent for exclusively heterosexual and homosexual boys and girls.

Abstinence was elevated among heterosexual and unsure youths compared with lesbian, gay, and bisexual youths. This is unsurprising for 2 reasons. First, the unsure youths will likely assume a heterosexual identity at some later time, 27 implying an underlying similarity between the 2 groups. Second, becoming aware of a developing same-sex sexuality in the context of a society that continues to stigmatize homosexuality means that some sexual-minority youths are likely to test their attractions by having sexual relations with the other sex followed by, when the attractions do not abate, sexual relations with the same sex.

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We encourage researchers to consider the implications of different markers of sexual orientation for whatever health outcomes are examined. For example, a study using a representative sample of adolescents in Norway found that the sexual behavior dimension, rather than attractions or identity, was the most important correlate of suicide attempts.

We also hope that more cities and states query their youths about sexual orientation, given the known health disparities by sexual orientation. Mustanski is supported by a William T. We would like to thank Aimee Van Wagenen for her role compiling the pooled data set. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health, the CDC, the William T. Grant Foundation, or any of the agencies involved in collecting the data. Protocol approval was not necessary because we obtained de-identified data from secondary sources.

National Center for Biotechnology Information , U. Am J Public Health. Published online February. Reprints can be ordered at http: Accepted October 23, This article has been cited by other articles in PMC. Measures All measures were assessed via self-report.

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Open in a separate window. Students within these cells were still retained in the denominator of relevant percentages. Sex Differences As shown in model 1 of Table 2 , boys were significantly more likely than girls to identify as gay or lesbian and less likely to identify as bisexual. Developmental Patterns With our cross-sectional data, Figure 1a illustrates the prevalence of minority identities and sexual behavior across ages among all girls sexually active and non—sexually active. Data are cross-sectional prevalence estimates at each age. Sexually Abstinent Youths Table 3 shows the distribution of sexual orientation identities for abstinent youths Sex Differences Our observed sex differences are consistent with those previously reported in the literature.

Developmental Patterns In our cross-sectional study, the prevalence of sexual-minority identity and behavior at each age varied by sex. Abstinent and Unsure Youths Abstinence was elevated among heterosexual and unsure youths compared with lesbian, gay, and bisexual youths. Human Participant Protection Protocol approval was not necessary because we obtained de-identified data from secondary sources.

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