The Story: A new report on adolescent sexual activity in Minnesota has produced some seemingly counterintuitive findings: Lesbian and bisexual females were three to five times more likely to have been pregnant than straight females while gay males and males who are questioning their sexuality were four times more likely than straight males to report getting someone pregnant.

The Background: The survey was taken among 9th and 11th graders and yielded 77,758 respondents. Out of those only 2.4 percent of straight males had gotten someone pregnant and only 1.5 percent of straight females had been pregnant. For gay males, 9.9 percent had gotten someone pregnant while 6.6 percent of lesbians had been pregnant. The same percentage of “questioning” males (9.9 percent) had also gotten someone pregnant while 2.8 percent of “questioning” females had been pregnant. Out of bisexual males, 8.9 percent had gotten someone pregnant while 8.2 percent of bisexual females had been pregnant.

Part of the reason for the high rates is that the LGBQ teens claimed to have sex much more often than straight teens: 50.9 percent of lesbian females and 48.7 percent of gay males have ever had sex compared with 23.5 percent of straight females and 25.9 percent of straight males.

Read the article “Gay Teens Have Higher Rates of Pregnancy Than Straight Teens” on thegospelcoalition.org.