SAME-GENDER SEX AMONG U.S. ADULTS: TRENDS ACROSS THE TWENTIETH CENTURY AND DURING THE 1990s |
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Authors: | Turner Charles F Villarroel Mariaa Chromy James R Eggleston Elizabeth Rogers Susan M |
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Affiliation: | Professor of applied social research at the City University of New York (Queens College and the Graduate Center) and a scientist with the Program in Health and Behavior Measurement at RTI International. |
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Abstract: | Trends in reporting of same-gender sex are assessed using datafrom the 19982002 General Social Surveys (Ns = 9,487males and 12,336 females). Analyses indicate that the reportedprevalence of female-female sexual contact increased substantiallyand monotonically across twentieth-century birth cohorts, risingfrom 1.6 percent (Standard error [SE] = 0.60) for the cohortof U.S. women born prior to 1920 to 6.9 percent (SE = 0.81)for women born in 1970 and afterward. Increases in the reportedprevalence of female-female contacts also occurred within the1990s. These trends persist when statistical controls are introducedfor changes in attitudes toward same-gender sexual behavior.No parallel trend is observed in the reporting of male-malesexual contacts during adulthood, although the proportion ofU.S. men reporting such contacts in the past year and in thepast five years increased during the 1990s. |
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