Table 1.
Frequency of demographics and sex education during adolescence, by sexual orientation (N=12,876)a
| Completely Heterosexual without same-sex contact | Completely Heterosexual with same-sex contact | Mostly Heterosexual | Bisexual | Gay/Lesbian | |
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| (n=9,275, 72%) | (n=466, 4%) | (n=2,402, 19%) | (n=336, 3%) | (n=397, 3%) | |
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| Age in 2016 (range: 22–35 years), Median (IQRb) | 30 (27–32) | 32 (30–33) | 30 (27–32) | 29 (25–32) | 31 (28–32) |
| White race/ethnicity, % (n) | 96 (8,787) | 92 (422) | 94 (2,242) | 96 (320) | 91 (360) |
| Female, % (n) | 63 (5,801) | 73 (339) | 79 (1,902) | 90 (302) | 45 (179) |
| Region | |||||
| Midwest | 32 (3,003) | 27 (123) | 29 (684) | 23 (77) | 25 (97) |
| Northeast | 30 (2,808) | 30 (137) | 30 (728) | 29 (96) | 34 (133) |
| South | 19 (1,760) | 22 (101) | 17 (401) | 17 (58) | 18 (70) |
| West | 18 (1,681) | 22 (103) | 24 (579) | 31 (102) | 24 (94) |
| Sex education topic, % (n) | |||||
| Abstinence-until-marriage sex educationc | 40 (3,687) | 36 (167) | 36 (860) | 40 (133) | 36 (141) |
| Sex refusal sex educationd | 11 (1,062) | 10 (47) | 11 (265) | 13 (43) | 12 (47) |
| Comprehensive sex educationc | 28 (2,570) | 26 (121) | 34 (809) | 32 (109) | 34 (134) |
| Sexuality Topics | |||||
| LGBd people/relationships are normal/natural |
49 (4,133) | 49 (213) | 66 (1,492) | 72 (234) | 64 (247) |
| LGBd people/relationships are abnormal/sinful |
51 (4,377) | 45 (197) | 53 (1,190) | 66 (210) | 72 (279) |
GUTS 1 participants were born 1982–1987, GUTS 2 1987–1994. Age and sexual orientation are reported for year of survey submission. Questions on sex education were retrospectively reported for exposures occurring before age 18.
IQR is “inter-quartile range.”
Abstinence-only until marriage sex education was coded as “yes” if a participant reported seeking/receiving information about “waiting until marriage to have sex while not endorsing seeking/receiving information about “methods of birth control”, “where to get birth control”, “how to use condoms”, and “how to say no to sex.” Sex refusal skills sex education was coded as “yes” if a participant reported seeking/receiving information about “how to say no to sex” while not endorsing seeking/receiving information about “methods of birth control”, “where to get birth control”, “how to use condoms”, and “waiting until marriage to have sex.” Comprehensive sex education was coded as “yes” if a participant reported seeking/receiving information about “how to say no to sex” while endorsing seeking/receiving information about at least one of the following topics: “methods of birth control”, “where to get birth control”, or “how to use condoms.”
LGB is “lesbian, gay, bisexual.”