YOUTH 2020 - The position of young people in Slovenia

56 that goes against the prevailing complete heterosexuality. Nevertheless, today’s young generations (generation Z and Y) in the West are much more likely to come out as not completely heterosexual in comparison to older generations (YouGov, 2019), which demonstrates a clear pattern of sexual liberalization in this part of the world, including Slovenia. Going back to our data for the whole youth group in Slovenia (ages 15–29), there are interesting differences between the sexes: significantly more men (62.8%) are completely heterosexual in comparison towomen (54%). There are no significant differences in the shares of completely homosexual or asexual individuals. Thismeans that a significantly larger share of wom- en (30.8%) in comparison to men (23%) are somewhere between the two extremes. An even more interesting correlation comes up when looking at sexual orientation and the family’s material standing. There are more homosexual individuals who live in poorer families (r = -0.14; p < 0.01). This means we cannot explain homosexual orientation as something that can only be “afforded” by kids of wealthy families. To the contrary, only 3.6% of youth with above-average material standing of the family declared themselves to be homosexual, while a surprising 8.6% of youth with below-average family wealth did so. The most important question with regards to gender identities and sex- ual orientation has to do with feelings of discrimination. For ease of demonstration, we compiled the following figure by grouping the six categories from the Kinsey scale into three categories: heterosexual ori- entation (categories 1 and 2), middle-of-the-road (categories 3 and 4), and homosexual orientation (categories 5 and 6).