How many women have had a lesbian experience
Lesbian Visibility Week: Three women, three stories of coming out
Three women from across Northern Ireland share their stories of coming to terms with their sexual orientation and coming out.
Annie
Hi my name is Annie, I’m a 32 year old, finally out and proud lesbian, in the Causeway Coast and Glens area. It’s Lesbian Public presence Week and I would like to share a bit about me and my experience finding my way in the planet. I hope that by being vulnerable and sharing my story it might encourage others to expose up, seek support, try a community, become alert of yourself and your needs and just be you!
So&#;I didn’t come out until I was the ripe age of 30! Unusually, not because I was hiding it, but because I wasn’t alert. It was just so ingrained in me through society, family and peers that as a girl I was destined to get married to a man and have children. People around me assumed I was hetero asking questions like ‘do you have a boyfriend’ or statements like ‘he’s fit isn’t he’ and because I didn’t have any strong lesbian role models in my life providing an alternative narrative, so did I. Upon reflection though, I remember around puberty age I wasn’t as interested in ‘b
Women’s Queer Sexuality in College
Sexuality and inequality research
by Jessie Ford and Paula England | March 9,
What queer sexuality are college women engaged in on today’s campuses? Using data from the Online College Survey of Social Life (OCSLS) led by one of us (Paula England), we provide statistics on what women hold done sexually with other women, as well as what they have done with men, and how this differs by women’s reported sexual orientation. The OCSLS survey was taken online between and by more than 20, students from 21 four-year colleges and universities. Both men and women took the survey, but here we focus just on women.
Table 1 at the terminate of this post details what we found. We show the percentage of all college women who have participated in various sexual activities with men and women. We then show what percentage of women who identified as heterosexual, bisexual, lesbian, and unsure have participated in these activities.
Here are highlights from our findings, and our interpretations.
Women Kissing Women—What Does it Mean?
It is now commonplace to view women kissing other women on the dance floor or in public at parties. Often these are women who identify
Do All Women "Experiment" With Lesbianism In College? Not Even Close
Common in accepted culture these days is when you ask a grown woman if she ever kissed a miss, you often get the response, “Well once…in college.” Today, a national learning has found that women with their college degrees actually were less likely to have kissed a girl than their only-high-school-diploma-having counterparts.
For years, sex researchers, campus women’s centers and the media have viewed college as a place where immature women explore their sexuality, test boundaries, and, often, have their first, and only lesbian relationship.
Based on 13, responses, almost 10% of women ages 22 to 44 with a bachelor’s degree said they had had a same-sex experience, compared with 15% of those with no high university diploma. Women with a high school diploma or some college, but no degree, fell in between. Six percent of college educated women reported oral sex with a homosexual partner, compared with 13% who did not accomplish high school.
Rea Carey, executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force told the Los Angeles Times in their coverage:
“It’s
Source: Amanda Hirsch from Brooklyn, NY, USA - Women power, CC BY
How many women are not totally straight?
Across all countries in which we acquire sufficient data on sexual orientation, straight-identified women are the second largest group—only slightly smaller than vertical men in most national surveys. According to a cross-national survey of 28 countries, they compose about 90% of the female population, and the percentage is likely higher in countries with traditional notions of femininity that discourage engaging in same-sex habit. Remember, however, this is when women are only given bisexual and womxn loving womxn as alternative identity categories and when they are not asked who they are sexually attracted to or who they possess sex with.
Is this 90% an overestimation? Yes, as it is among men, but even more so. When women are given identity options beyond the traditional three (straight, bisexual, lesbian), a big number will choose vertical even though they comprehend this is inaccurate; if, however, they are given more non-straight options, such as mostly straight, pansexual, queer, fluid, questioning, or asexual, they commonly opt one of these because they more adequately
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