HOW GAY ARE YOU?

I am not an expert, but from what I have observed - I have concluded that many people are sexually lost. Do you identify as straight, or gay, or somewhere in between? A new poll suggests we may be becoming more open-minded about our sexuality as a nation.

According to a YouGov poll, nearly half of 16 to 24 year olds don’t identify as either completely straight or completely gay, and nearly a fifth of us of all ages also fall somewhere in the middle.

The poll used a scale of sexual orientation originally devised by Dr Alfred Kinsey in the 1940s which asks people to give themselves a number from 0-6; 0 being exclusively heterosexual and 6 being exclusively homosexual.

72 percent of respondents to the recent survey rated themselves as completely heterosexual, with 4 percent rating themselves completely homosexual. The remaining 19 percent fell somewhere in the middle, although this figure rose to 49 percent for 16 to 24 year olds.

Only 2 percent placed themselves directly in the middle of the scale, with the majority leaning more towards the heterosexual side. Sexual orientation may not be as black and white (or indeed grey) as we sometimes think.

The trends around younger adults may suggest that we, as a nation, are becoming more sexually open-minded with time, but may also point to the idea that youth and young adulthood can be a time of uncertainty and exploration, when we are still getting to know ourselves and our sexual identities, and figuring out who we are. Leviticus 20:13