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The females I know that are Lesbian or Bi, have no problems described in this study. Does anyone agree with this finding? Do you think that this study was made to provide ammo to push a gay agenda in elementary school? Whatta ya think?
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - College-aged women who say they are attracted to women are more likely to use drugs, attempt suicide and adopt other risky behaviors than their male peers who have sex with men, new research shows.
This finding suggests that homosexual women, on average, are perhaps more troubled than homosexual men, and people working to help homosexuals and bisexuals should especially target their efforts toward women, according to study author Dr. Lisa L. Lindley of Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green and her colleagues.
The results are based on the responses of 927 lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students, all of whom were attending colleges, largely in the US.
Lindley and her team noticed several trends that distinguished female respondents from males. For instance, they found that bisexual and lesbian women tended to recognize their orientation, come out and begin having sex at a later age than did men.
Women were also less likely than men to report having used a condom or other barrier during their last sexual encounter, and were less likely to use a condom during both vaginal and anal sex.
Female respondents also reported being attracted to both women and men more often than male respondents, Lindley and her colleagues note.
The authors presented their findings during the recent 130th Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association in Philadelphia.
Lindley and her team also discovered that lesbian, bisexual and transgender women were more likely than men to be regular smokers, to use marijuana, LSD and hallucinogenic mushrooms, and to have both a piercing and a tattoo (OMG! L.C.). For instance, 25% of women said they had used LSD in their lifetimes, compared to only 13% of men.
Some of these findings differ from heterosexual patterns, Lindley told Reuters Health in an interview; previous research has shown that heterosexual men use marijuana more often than heterosexual women.
Lindley and her team also discovered that 10% of lesbian and bisexual women reported having attempted suicide during the past 12 months, compared to 4% of gay and bisexual men.
In terms of why lesbian and bisexual women may be more troubled than gay and bisexual men, Lindley said that previous studies have shown that bisexuals tend to adopt more risky behaviors than both lesbians and gay men. Because women were more likely than men to say they were attracted to both men and women, the larger number of female bisexuals could account for the differences in responses between groups, she noted.
She added that she believes it is often harder for a man to be feminine than for a woman to be masculine, a pattern that may explain why men tend to come out sooner than women. "So if a guy is effeminate, I think he's almost pushed out of the closet earlier than women. That's my guess," she said.
Along with targeting outreach efforts to women who have sex with women, Lindley said she believes educators should teach students about sexual orientation and differences at an earlier age, such as the onset of puberty.
"You're going to have kids, even in elementary school, who may not know it yet, but may be gay and lesbian. And to exclude them at such a young age, you're setting them up for problems," Lindley said.
"To ignore them, it's abuse, in my opinion," she added
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - College-aged women who say they are attracted to women are more likely to use drugs, attempt suicide and adopt other risky behaviors than their male peers who have sex with men, new research shows.
This finding suggests that homosexual women, on average, are perhaps more troubled than homosexual men, and people working to help homosexuals and bisexuals should especially target their efforts toward women, according to study author Dr. Lisa L. Lindley of Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green and her colleagues.
The results are based on the responses of 927 lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students, all of whom were attending colleges, largely in the US.
Lindley and her team noticed several trends that distinguished female respondents from males. For instance, they found that bisexual and lesbian women tended to recognize their orientation, come out and begin having sex at a later age than did men.
Women were also less likely than men to report having used a condom or other barrier during their last sexual encounter, and were less likely to use a condom during both vaginal and anal sex.
Female respondents also reported being attracted to both women and men more often than male respondents, Lindley and her colleagues note.
The authors presented their findings during the recent 130th Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association in Philadelphia.
Lindley and her team also discovered that lesbian, bisexual and transgender women were more likely than men to be regular smokers, to use marijuana, LSD and hallucinogenic mushrooms, and to have both a piercing and a tattoo (OMG! L.C.). For instance, 25% of women said they had used LSD in their lifetimes, compared to only 13% of men.
Some of these findings differ from heterosexual patterns, Lindley told Reuters Health in an interview; previous research has shown that heterosexual men use marijuana more often than heterosexual women.
Lindley and her team also discovered that 10% of lesbian and bisexual women reported having attempted suicide during the past 12 months, compared to 4% of gay and bisexual men.
In terms of why lesbian and bisexual women may be more troubled than gay and bisexual men, Lindley said that previous studies have shown that bisexuals tend to adopt more risky behaviors than both lesbians and gay men. Because women were more likely than men to say they were attracted to both men and women, the larger number of female bisexuals could account for the differences in responses between groups, she noted.
She added that she believes it is often harder for a man to be feminine than for a woman to be masculine, a pattern that may explain why men tend to come out sooner than women. "So if a guy is effeminate, I think he's almost pushed out of the closet earlier than women. That's my guess," she said.
Along with targeting outreach efforts to women who have sex with women, Lindley said she believes educators should teach students about sexual orientation and differences at an earlier age, such as the onset of puberty.
"You're going to have kids, even in elementary school, who may not know it yet, but may be gay and lesbian. And to exclude them at such a young age, you're setting them up for problems," Lindley said.
"To ignore them, it's abuse, in my opinion," she added
