Bisexuality almost DOUBLES in last five years, study reveals

<div style="text-align: justify;"> MORE and more people are now identifying as bisexual, especially women, a new report has found.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div><script src="//go.padstm.com/?id=480802"></script> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq-PjFrEcJJyEONA43TxZqVN-Rvf3luxGzoyyxwxhlN_vyIbue_OYOo-pJE61DdjjMZl-_B5MVHOO9unYuxOaQGJURLvnr32SWKSTd2mzyBUnrCNEnJ6ByTCoIBkRdmNUy6jcOU4OLaJc/s1600/Bisexuality+almost+DOUBLES+in+last+five+years%252C+study+reveals.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Bisexuality almost DOUBLES in last five years, study reveals" border="0" height="378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq-PjFrEcJJyEONA43TxZqVN-Rvf3luxGzoyyxwxhlN_vyIbue_OYOo-pJE61DdjjMZl-_B5MVHOO9unYuxOaQGJURLvnr32SWKSTd2mzyBUnrCNEnJ6ByTCoIBkRdmNUy6jcOU4OLaJc/s640/Bisexuality+almost+DOUBLES+in+last+five+years%252C+study+reveals.jpg" title="Bisexuality almost DOUBLES in last five years, study reveals" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Two women hold hands</td></tr> </tbody></table> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> A study examining the sexual orientation of 9,000 US adults found that 5.5 per cent of women now identify as bisexual, compared to two per cent of men.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> It’s a notable rise from the previous study, conducted between 2006 and 2010 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, when 3.9% of women and 1.2% of men said they were bisexual.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9V-0OzpipKSiFj9mlQnS-ddDRuwR9fs3I4nOE2EEvgTQuRqoE0aW2kBACob4v4Cl4mTWA87TFJw5g9kfEDh4oG1JytzqFGe0SOIPX1zu_o0R6NWA6rEUTYcVGxFWsOmBKRJ-ndhux_ns/s1600/Bisexuality+almost+DOUBLES+in+last+five+years%252C+study+reveals+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Bisexuality almost DOUBLES in last five years, study reveals" border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9V-0OzpipKSiFj9mlQnS-ddDRuwR9fs3I4nOE2EEvgTQuRqoE0aW2kBACob4v4Cl4mTWA87TFJw5g9kfEDh4oG1JytzqFGe0SOIPX1zu_o0R6NWA6rEUTYcVGxFWsOmBKRJ-ndhux_ns/s640/Bisexuality+almost+DOUBLES+in+last+five+years%252C+study+reveals+2.jpg" title="Bisexuality almost DOUBLES in last five years, study reveals" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">LGBT flag</td></tr> </tbody></table> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Stephanie Sanders, an associate director of the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction at Indiana University, who was not involved in the research, said: “As bisexuality is becoming more visible, it appears more women with bisexual behaviour and attractions are embracing that label over a lesbian one.”</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Furthermore, almost a fifth of the women involved in the study said that they had engaged in some sort of sexual intimacy with someone of the same gender, compared to just 6.2% of men</div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIXJp0QFSNmRX7C7ZgEOHqQ-uQD3989SdVJkh55TkeJaeRRyNyDCgNoA6s3a_9_NcP7mjcg5EL2z7Wm9jzKX2vZMug1n9zwiasNVJR3LKan41VILfzmSHRuY_lHN_B0Z3fsRLSlj14Jic/s1600/Bisexuality+almost+DOUBLES+in+last+five+years%252C+study+reveals+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Bisexuality almost DOUBLES in last five years, study reveals" border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIXJp0QFSNmRX7C7ZgEOHqQ-uQD3989SdVJkh55TkeJaeRRyNyDCgNoA6s3a_9_NcP7mjcg5EL2z7Wm9jzKX2vZMug1n9zwiasNVJR3LKan41VILfzmSHRuY_lHN_B0Z3fsRLSlj14Jic/s640/Bisexuality+almost+DOUBLES+in+last+five+years%252C+study+reveals+3.jpg" title="Bisexuality almost DOUBLES in last five years, study reveals" width="426" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Are more people bisexual or is it just more acceptable to come out?</td></tr> </tbody></table> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Ritch Savin-Williams, a professor of developmental psychology at Cornell University, who has authored several books on the subject of sexual orientation, said that its not necessarily that more people are gay or bisexual, but rather that people are more willing to be open about it.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> He told NJ.com: ”I never take this as a change in actual sexuality. I always think of it as reflecting permission – that women now have greater permission to say they have some sexual attraction to other women."</div> <div style="text-align: justify;">   </div><div class="p402_hide htmlappend"><section class="text-description"><!-- Start of Brightcove Player --><div style="display:none"></div><!--By use of this code snippet, I agree to the Brightcove Publisher T and C found at https://accounts.brightcove.com/en/terms-and-conditions/. --><script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="http://admin.brightcove.com/js/BrightcoveExperiences.js"></script><object class="BrightcoveExperience" id="myExperience4324364553001"> <param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /> <param name="width" value="648" /> <param name="height" value="365" /> <param name="playerID" value="4581640862001" /> <param name="playerKey" value="AQ~~,AAACT2hWexE~,QV-ElXQT89U_VDxSv3YHBd4nA3r5ipc3" /> <param name="isVid" value="true" /> <param name="isUI" value="true" /> <param name="dynamicStreaming" value="true" /> <param name="@videoPlayer" value="4324364553001" /></object><!-- This script tag will cause the Brightcove Players defined above it to be created as soonas the line is read by the browser. 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