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The purpose of this study was to explore attitudes toward and experience with kinky sexual activities in younger adults in Norway. In 2013, the polling organization Ipsos MMI sent an online questionnaire survey to a representative national web sample of 2,090 persons aged 18-29 years. Of those polled, 27.2% responded (n = 568). Sixty-two percent reported no kinky sexual experience, 20.8% had experienced one such activity, 10.4% took part in two such activities, and 6.4% had participated in three such activities. The most commonly reported activities were bondage (27.5%), sex that includes consensual roughness and/or pain (18.1%), and sexual role play (15.5%), herein defined as the three dependent variables. Hierarchical regression analyses were carried out to study the relationship between the three different lifetime experiences of kinky sexual activity and social background factors (step 1), attitudes towards different expressions of sexuality (step 2), and previous sexual experience (step 3). Social background variables explained a small percentage of the variance in all three dependent variables. In step 2, attitudes contributed significantly to the prediction for all three dependent variables after controlling for social background. An additional 15.1% of sexual role play experience, 22.1% of bondage experience, and 27.9% of experience with consensual dominance and submission was thus explained. Previous sexual behavior (step 3) added significantly to the percentage of explained variance for all three dependent variables. The included predictors explained 22.5% of the variance in experience with sexual role play, 30.2% of the bondage experience, and 35.5% of the variance in dominance and submission games. Kinky sexual activities generally seem quite common in and accepted by Norwegian young adults.

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