Bisexuality is a nearly university experience in the primates involved, the research says

What way does your sexuality swing?

Bisexual group – those who are sexually attracted to both men and women – is growing. A 2024 Gallup survey showed that 4.4% of US adults say they are bisexuals, including 57.3% of those already identified as LGBTQ+.

However, research has recently shown that bisexuality can be even more ubiquitous than we have understood before.

The owner of the target Jason Hodgson, an evolutionary geneticist at the University of England Ruskin in Cambridge, spoke with the Daily Mail about his studies on the human “bisexual range”, claiming that people are rarely fully heterosexual or gay – instead of falling somewhere in a sexual spectrum.

“I predict that most people really need to be bisexuals,” Hodson said.

“The genes that affect the sexual behavior of the same sex are probably just genes that affect general society, and people in the middle of the range of variation are likely better in all social relationships.”

“Therefore, people who would be involved in the sexual behavior of the same sex in some situations are also likely to be better in the formation of heterosexual relationships.”

Hodgson uses a purely numerical formula to illustrate his point: everyone is placed in a 0 to 1 string, with 0 indicating heterosexuality and 1 showing pure homosexuality.

“So if a person had a homosexual experience and 99 heterosexual experiences, their value would be 1/100 or 0.01 – just a little in the bisexual range.”

It should also be noted that a sexual “experience” can come in the form of a real physical encounter with another person, but can also listen to those who experience ausal in the simple eyesight or opinion of another. Ergo, a person would not need to be involved in heterosexual and homosexual acts in real life to qualify as bisexual.

“I doubt that most people would be a little in the bisexual interval if they are given the right social circumstances,” Hodgson said, adding that engaging in bisexual experiences is not the same as identifying as bisexuals.

The anthropologist said that this rule stands true for most primates, explaining how bisexuality plays an important social role. In a 2016 study, Hodgson found that bonobos are one of the few species of animals involved in regular sexual intercourse of the same sex, often than with the opposite sex.

“Bonobos are bisexuals, and this is thought to contribute to group cohesion,” Hodgson wrote in the paper, published in the Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Sciences. “Bisexuality can be the norm, as those individuals involved in homosexual sex often participate in reproductive sex.”

Hodgson also noted that “many, many finds” work together to determine human sexuality, which means that sexual orientation is to some extent an inherited feature.

“The genes that affect the sexual behavior of the same sex are common, and most of all have them to a lesser or larger degree,” he said.