Why are so many young girls lesbians?
This story is SOOO interesting for SOOO many reasons.
1. Dr Sax shows that sexual orientation is different for women than for men, disturbing the common theory that sex differences are completely socially constructed, and that men and women are completely interchangeable.
2. Dr. Sax shows that sexual orientation is much more fluid for women than for men, disturbing the common theory (which is morphing into a legal doctrine) that sexual orientation is an immutable characteristic, comparable to race. At best, this might be true for men, but is almost certainly not true for women.
3. Dr. Sax shows that the sexual orienation of women can be shaped by the experiences they have, not entirely by genetics or other in-born factors.
4. Dr. Sax shows that some women at least are choosing other women as sex partners because the men they know are such losers.
5. Dr. Sax shows that men who consume a steady diet of pornography are not suitable sex partners for real women, as we have discussed on this page before.
6. Dr. Sax shows that there are men who actively prefer computer pornography to real women, and are not embarrassed by it, and who are not particularly claiming that the women they know are somehow to blame, and finally,
7. The one character in this category whom he cites is a combination control freak and narcissist. OK: Draw your own conclusion from this quotation:
John Mayer’s current preference for pornography over sex with real women wasn’t well-known until his interview with Rolling Stone (February 4 2010) and his March 2010 interview with Playboy magazine, in which he also explained why he now prefers porn over sex with actual women: because masturbation allows him to be in complete control. He said: “As soon as I lose that control, once I have to deal with someone else’s desires, I cut and run . . . I’m more comfortable in my imagination than I am in actual human discovery.”
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Is this a sign that “recruitment” works?
That 15% figure also has political ramifications, especially among the youth vote and the activist population.
As I get older I hear more about people who were lesbian in college but are now married to men. There’s even an Onion article, “Lesbian identity ends abruptly mid-junior year,” on the topic. I hear of the same thing happening to men, but among my old classmates the only change I’ve seen is the one gay man who now claims to be bisexual.
Hello! All this means is that a higher percentage of women than men are BISEXUAL, which does not at all surprise me considering that women value gender equality and intellectual and spiritual compatibility more than men do. I am a bisexual woman in a relationship with an immutably lesbian woman. I have a choice, she does not. I choose the person, not the genitalia. She couldn’t be with a man if she tried! Go back to the Kinsey continuum on human sexuality. It might help to explain a few things that you don’t seem to understand.
What are you talking about, Heidi? High percentage? That’s simply NOT true. The GLBT community is VERY tiny. Less than four-percent of voters in this country self-identified as glbt in a 2008, and that’s just from voting exit polls, which are ureliable. I don’t know where you get your bogus numbers, but you need to do a better job of research. Kinsey’s research was based on what is called ‘convenience samples’ rather than ‘random samples’ and was very much subject to bias and has been roundly criticized.