TABLE 2—

Weighted Cross-Tabulations Between Sexual Identity, Behavior, and Attraction Measures: National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, United States, 2007–2008

	Sexual Behaviora						Sexual Attraction
Characteristic	Only Opposite-Sex Partners, %	Mostly Opposite-Sex Partners, %	Male and Female Partners, %	Mostly Same-Sex Partners, %	Only Same-Sex Sexual Partners, %	Never Had Sexual Partner, %	Attracted to Opposite Sex, %	Attracted to Both Sexes, %	Attracted to Same Sex, %	No Attraction Reported, %
Women
Sexual identity
Straight	88.2	28.2	37.0	6.8	0.0	90.0	87.6	5.9	8.0	68.3
Mostly straight	11.1	53.2	18.9	8.6	6.2	5.3	12.0	61.6	2.9	7.2
Bisexual	0.3	15.3	18.9	5.8	1.8	0.0	0.0	28.3	1.0	5.6
Mostly gay	0.0	2.2	14.4	17.5	33.4	0.0	0.0	4.2	31.2	0.0
Gay	0.0	0.9	10.0	61.3	58.6	0.0	0.0	0.2	54.0	0.0
None reported	0.4	0.3	0.7	0.0	0.0	4.7	0.3	0.0	3.0	18.9
Sexual attraction
Attracted to opposite sex	95.7	59.0	45.8	1.0	5.0	94.0
Attracted to both sexes	3.4	38.0	34.7	18.0	12.1	0.4
Attracted to same sex	0.2	2.3	17.9	81.0	82.9	1.2
No attraction reported	0.7	0.7	1.6	0.0	0.0	4.4
Men
Sexual identity
Straight	97.5	49.3	57.0	4.7	12.6	89.9	96.6	38.7	1.6	79.8
Mostly straight	2.3	36.2	25.8	8.2	1.6	4.7	3.0	26.5	0.0	8.4
Bisexual	0.1	14.2	11.0	3.1	1.9	0.6	0.2	22.6	0.9	0.0
Mostly gay	0.0	0.2	3.4	27.6	13.0	0.4	0.0	8.7	20.3	0.0
Gay	0.0	0.0	0.3	55.1	70.7	0.7	0.0	3.5	77.2	0.0
None reported	0.1	0.0	2.5	1.3	0.2	3.7	0.2	0.0	0.0	11.9
Sexual attraction
Attracted to opposite sex	98.5	84.0	69.9	7.0	9.0	86.7
Attracted to both sexes	0.8	16.0	19.7	69.2	7.3	5.5
Attracted to same sex	0.0	0.0	3.7	20.7	83.6	1.1
No attraction reported	0.7	0.0	6.6	3.1	0.2	6.7

Note. Column percentages reported may not add to 100 because of rounding.

^aAll cross-tabulations significant at P < .05. Mostly opposite sex sexual partners (> 0.0 and < 0.3); male and female sexual partners (≥ 0.3 and < 0.7); mostly same-sex sexual partners (≥ 0.7 and < 1.0).