Bisexual Americans On The Rise, New Study Confirms

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Many Americans have already opened their mind with regard to a person's sexual orientation. It has been one of the most talk-about topics in 2015 and, as we entered into the new year, researchers revealed that bisexuality in the U.S. is on the rise.

The Centers for Disease Control confirms that there are more self-confessed bisexuals and same-sex sexual contacts now compared to few years ago. The increase is ultimately high, which suggests that many people in the US are comfortable with their sexual preference today.

According to the agency, to come up with the conclusion, they surveyed over 9,000 Americans aged between 18 and 44 between the year 2011 and 2013, CNN reported.

It has also been known that women are more likely vocal about their own sexuality than men. According to the researchers, 5.5 percent of women admitted to be bisexual, which has already risen up from 3.9 percent in the previous survey. On the other hand, only 2 percent of men labeled themselves as such, which sees a slight increase from 1.2 percent in the previous poll.

Many women have also admitted to have same-sex sexual experience compared to men.

In the survey, the researchers have identified race disparities among the people they surveyed. They found out that only 11.2 percent of Hispanic and Latina responders admitted to have sexual contacts with the same sex, while 19.4 percent of black women and 19.6 percent of white women have had same-sex sexual experience.

According to a report from NJ True Jersey, there are about 11 percent of women who are married that have had sexual contact with the same sex while the figure for married men is significantly low at four percent.

Debby Herbenick, author and an associate professor at Indiana University, said that it is so much easier now for people to call themselves bisexual because as the years go by, people already understood what it is. Although, Herbenick is not part of the research team, her opinion with regard to the study totally makes sense.

"It's certainly not a new idea that women and men may be attracted to more than gender," she said on CNN. "But that doesn't mean it's an easy orientation to adopt. Women and men who self-identify as bisexual experience stigma not just from heterosexuals but also homosexuals."

She added that health groups should understand the rise of bisexuality in the U.S. so that it will be easier for them to educate people with regard to sexually transmitted diseases.