Homosexuality: behaviours and attitudes.
To assess the incidence of homosexual experiences, heterosexual experiences, associated attitudes, and related demographic characteristics, a sexual behaviour and attitudes questionaire was administered to 4251 university students. The rate of homosexual experiences was found to be appreciably lower than that commonly reported in the literature and was not significantly related to race, religion, or region of residence. Individuals with homosexual experiences, compared to those without, tended to be more liberal in their views toward socially deviant sexual behavior in general, did not demonstrate fewer heterosexual contacts, and did not report significantly more guilt or anxiety about their sexual behavior.
D001290:Attitude; D004812:Epidemiologic Methods; D005006:Ethnicity; D005260:Female; D006167:Guilt; D006716:Homosexuality / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010262:Paraphilic Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology; D012067:Religion; D012725:Sexual Behavior; D012925:Social Conformity; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014481:United States