Posted on 09/15/2005 9:09:52 PM PDT by Artemis Webb
More women — particularly those in their late teens and 20s — are experimenting with bisexuality or at least feel more comfortable reporting same-sex encounters, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The survey, released Thursday by the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics, found that 11.5 percent of women, ages 18 to 44, said they've had at least one sexual experience with another woman in their lifetimes, compared with about 4 percent of women, ages 18 to 59, who said the same in a comparable survey a decade earlier.
For women in their late teens and 20s, the percentage rose to 14 percent in the more recent survey. About 6 percent of men in their teens and 20s said they'd had at least one same-sex encounter.
While those who conducted the survey took measures to protect respondents' privacy, researchers say it's unclear whether the figure for men was lower because they're are more likely to avoid same-sex experiences or whether they're not reporting them.
It wouldn't surprise Kat Fowler, a 27-year-old art student who dates both women and men, if men were less likely to talk about their experiences.
"There's a certain higher level of discrimination (for men). It's a lot easier for women to have these kinds of experiences and be open about it because it's more accepted," said Fowler, who attends the University of Florida.
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It's OK, watching Mel Gibson in a kilt as William Wallace qualifies as a "sexual experience".
It ain't real lesbianism. (Only superficially it is.)
In the background, you can see,
Hillary nodding in approval.
Like the increase in oral sex among teens, this is a product of the mainstreaming of pornography.
Relations between women have ALWAYS been difft. from relations between men. These "researchers" are pulling the "there's more discrimination among men" thing to make gay sex less taboo.
There are so many former lesbians out there they came up with a new term for them.."Hasbians"
So much for the "born that way" theory..
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Most of this, I suspect is typical bullsh!t LUG posturing. The scenario goes that a girl (typically unwashed, unshaven, granola eaters) who won't get any dates under normal circumstances goes to a University, finds herself a girlfriend and becomes a LUG. Lesbian Until Graduation.
Still...11.5% of respondents? Are we talking about a true cross section? And we are STILL talking about a slim minority. I think that stories like these might whet appetites for younger people who are bombarded with "try it, you'll like it" messages in freshman orientations on campuses across this nation.
This is sick!!!
Any pics?
Why do I get the feeling that a majority of these are in California?
you just described about 20% of the chicks on my campus!...hehe
What? These multi shades of gender non-heteronormatives are not genetically predisposed to inevitable homosexuality -they actually choose whether on not to engage in an activity? Shocking!!!
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