A surprising new study shows that sexuality is more likely to change for one sex than the other. (GIF: Hanifa Abdul Hameed for Yahoo Health)
Women’s sexuality is more flexible than that of men, new research suggests.
The study, which followed the sexuality of more than 9,000 people over 14 years, was recently presented at the American Sociological Association’s annual meeting.
For the study, researchers used data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health and tracked 5,018 women and 4,191 men as they moved from adolescence to young adulthood. On average, they were 16 years old in “Wave I” (1994-95), 22 in “Wave III” (2001-02), and 28 in “Wave IV” (2007-08).
In each wave, participants were asked to identify their sexuality, as well as whether they had ever been attracted to a member of the same sex or had experienced same-sex sexual activity. A panel also rated the participants’ attractiveness.
Among the findings: Women were three times more likely to change how they labeled their sexuality between their
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