HALF of young people don’t identify as ‘100% straight’

The percentage of respondents reporting a sexual experience with a person of the same sex was still relatively small-17 percent overall-but attitudes to sexual identity and openness to bisexuality are clearly in transition. Of these, only 46% say they are completely heterosexual and 6% as completely homosexual’.

However, among 18-24 year olds – who are likely to have grown up in a more accepting environment – the figures are shockingly different.

Four percent said they were completely homosexual, while 19 percent said they classed themselves as somewhere in-between.

According to the poll, conducted by YouGov, when asked to plot themselves on a seven-point Kinsey scale, 72 percent of Britons identifed as exclusively heterosexual and 4 percent as exclusively homosexual, leaving 23 percent between those two extremes.

The sale shows the closer an individual is to the “completely bisexual” midpoint (3), the more likely they are to have had a homosexual experience.

While only 2% of respondents identified themselves as bisexual, it appears that many acknowledge some sexual fluidity outside such labels.

Every generation sees sexuality as something which is slightly less set in stone, according to the report.

‘The results for 18-24 year-olds are particularly striking, as 43% place themselves in the non-binary area between 1 and 5 and 52% place themselves at one end or the other.

In a statement, YouGov said that the poll indicates, “more than anything… an increasingly open minded approach to sexuality”.

“Women are increasingly viewing their own sexuality as fluid”.