Women Are 3 Times More Likely Than Men to Fool Around with the Same Sex, Says New Study

The study analyzed data on sexual attraction, behavior, and orientation collected from 9,175 men and women aged 18 to 44 via in-person interviews.

The results were super-interesting, to say the least. Here are the highlights:

• 17.4 percent of women reported having any same-sex sexual contact in their life (compared with 6.2 percent of men)
• 81 percent of women said they’re only attracted to the opposite sex (vs. 92 percent of men)
• 1.3 percent of women identified as “homosexual, gay, or lesbian” (vs. 1.9 percent of men)
• 5.5 percent of women said they were bisexual (vs. 2 percent of men)
• 1 percent of women said they “don’t know” their sexual orientation or refused to say what it was

Worth noting: Their definition of “same-sex contact” covers a wide range—everything from smooching your BFF to actual intercourse. But the data is just the latest in a slew of studies that have found similar results.

Research presented at the American Sociological Association’s annual meeting in August found that women are more sexually fluid than men. Scientists specifically discovered that women were three times more likely to change how they labeled their sexual orientation in their 20s and were also more likely than men to say they were bisexual.

Another study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology in October monitored 345 women as they watched videos of naked men and women and tested them for arousal responses. Women who identified as heterosexual responded to images of men and women, while those who identified as lesbian had strong physical responses to just images of women. As a result, researchers concluded, women are either lesbian or bisexual when it comes to a physical arousal response.

What does this mean, exactly? Apparently women are more open than men to playing for the same team. And, if you find that you’re drawn to both sexes, you’re in very good company.