Have you any idea why so many students identify as other than heterosexual? Is it simply fashionable to claim to be in a sexual minority? Do we have any behavioural data about whether their self-identification matches their actual sexual behaviour?
Have you any idea why so many students identify as other than heterosexual? Is it simply fashionable to claim to be in a sexual minority? Do we have any behavioural data about whether their self-identification matches their actual sexual behaviour?
It seems there is a nexus between being "fluid" in sexual orientation and being anxious and unhappy, some form of sensitivity or vulnerability.
I cannot work out why "Bi-sexual" are the most distressed, other than speculating they do not have a coherent ideological group to bolster their self esteem.
Have you any idea why so many students identify as other than heterosexual? Is it simply fashionable to claim to be in a sexual minority? Do we have any behavioural data about whether their self-identification matches their actual sexual behaviour?
We do, actually! Read Eric's last report: https://www.cspicenter.com/p/born-this-way-the-rise-of-lgbt-as-a-social-and-political-identity
Dear Johah, Champion answer! A vertitable barrage of a report, for which many thanks.
The spur for my question was a short post I made on a paper on self reported sexual orientation and psychological difficulties.
https://www.unz.com/jthompson/sexual-orientation-and-psychological-disorder/
It seems there is a nexus between being "fluid" in sexual orientation and being anxious and unhappy, some form of sensitivity or vulnerability.
I cannot work out why "Bi-sexual" are the most distressed, other than speculating they do not have a coherent ideological group to bolster their self esteem.
Again, thanks for all this detailed work
James