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I think it's impossible to grapple with this without fully reckoning with the impact of porn.

One thing I like to ask people is if they can name me an openly straight female pornstar. That is, a female porn star that has never appeared in scenes where they have sex with both men and women and have stated or it can be inferred from a long enough career that they refuse to be booked for those scenes. Then I ask them if they can name me an openly bisexual male porn star That is, one that has opened appeared in scenes where they have sex with both men and women.

The disparity of how hard it is to name either category reflects back onto our social beliefs of the acceptability and commonness of each.

The data seems to be very noisy: men interested in not-just women was 27%, 19%, 18%, 20%, 22% and now 13% in 2020-2026: what statistical method yields a "it has not budged since 2011 at 14%" is beyond me.

How does one draw any conclusions from things fluctuating as much?

Not to mention that there is a whole masculinity-hinged-on-heterosexuality thread which seems backed by... wishful thinking?

Well there was so much propaganda to make lesbian and gay people pn a pedastal...that it definitely would have pulled in sociopathic people who are willing to fake it for respect and power....also people who want an excuse to do things that are more acceptable when you can be a victim