Five percent of men report having had a sexual encounter with another man as an adult, while 2.8 percent say they are homosexual or bisexual. Four percent of women report having had a sexual encounter with another woman as an adult, while 1.5 percent say they are homosexual or bisexual. Geography plays an important role in the formation of homosexual communities. About 9 percent of the men and 3 percent of the women living in the nation's largest cities identify themselves as homosexual or bisexual. Seventy-two percent of women who have had abortions had only one.
Young teenagers are by far the most likely to abort a pregnancy.
The findings indicate that abortions are not being used as just another form of birth control. The researchers suggest that this argues against policies that punish women for having abortions in the hopes that such measures will discourage abortions from being casually used. To have informed discussions about combating teen sex and teen pregnancy, Americans need to know why teenage girls have sex for the first time, the researchers say. The reasons have changed over the decades. In previous generations, most women said they had sex for the first time because of affection for their partner, and only 13 percent said the reason was peer pressure.