Abstract
The aim of this study was to describe the prevalence of same‐sex experience, from deep kissing, through petting to genital contact, same‐sex romantic attraction and reported same‐sex arousal in a representative sample of young men and women aged 17–18 in Norway. While same‐sex experiences were reported as being more prevalent among young women (27.4%) than among young men (6.5%), the gender difference in the case of same‐sex genital experiences was smaller (F = 4.6%, M = 2.7%) than in the case of deep kissing (F = 25.7%, M = 3.9%). While same‐sex romantic attraction was more prevalent among young men with same‐sex experiences than young women, such attraction was confined to a minority of all young men. Results suggest that same‐sex experiences among Norwegian youth are not unequivocally tied to same‐sex attraction and possible homosexual self‐identity. We argue that among young men, same‐sex behaviour is more often associated with same‐sex orientation whereas young women's same‐sex relations seem to be more exploratory.
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