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Tuesday February 26 08:50 PM EST
Survey: More Britons approve of gay sex
By Ann Rostow, Gay.com / PlanetOut.com Network
SUMMARY: A new national study of 11,000 adults in the United Kingdom reveals that attitudes towards sex and homosexuality have relaxed over the last 10 years.
A new national study of 11,000 adults in the United Kingdom reveals that attitudes towards sex have relaxed over the last 10 years.
Some 42 percent of men and six out of 10 women think gay sex is fine, compared to 25 percent and 33 percent respectively in a 1990 survey. Roles were reversed on the subject of casual sex; 19 percent of women and 37 percent of men had no problem with the idea. In the 1990 survey, only 8 percent of women approved.
British women are also getting an earlier start on their sexual lives -- over 18 percent had sex before the age of 16, versus 13 percent in the past. As for the men, 27.5 percent reported underage sex, up from 25 percent in the last report.
Professor Anne Johnson of University College London said that her compatriots "have become less homophobic and less censorial of casual relationships," but added that Brits "still highly value fidelity within long-term relationships more so than we did 10 years ago."
Among the survey's other findings was the rise in men and women having (or admitting to) a same-sex sexual experience. Women acknowledging gay sex nearly doubled from 3.5 percent to 6.7 percent, while men went from 5 percent to 8.5 percent.
The report was published Tuesday in the journal Sexually Transmitted Infection.
"Always forgive your enemies...nothing annoys them quite so much." Oscar Wilde
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