Recent study/ One in Five Youths Changes Sexual orientation

A study done in Northern California, on teen sexuality, has resulted in one out of five young people changing their sexual orientation. In women this process happens three times faster than in men.

Psychologist J. Stewart, from North Carolina State University and his colleagues, surveyed 744 rural high school students for their sexual preferences over a three-year period. Of the participants, 54 % were girls and 46 % were boys.

In these three years, they discovered that 19 %s admitted that few had once thought of changing their sexual orientation and 21 %s claimed to have sexual attraction with the same sex. Some classified themselves as heterosexual in the first year and as bisexual/homossexual in the second year.

Several other students identified themselves as direct in their sexual orientation, the first year of the study, but then bisexual in next year's survey. Other students reported numerous changes over the period of three years.

This data shows the variety of emotions teenagers experience about how they label their sexuality and who they feel sexually attracted to,” said psychologist, Mrs. Stewart.