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Alarming numbers of queer women are unaware of dental dams and the fact that they can contract an STI from another woman, a study has shown.
The research, conducted by researchers at the Center for Innovative Public Health Research in collaboration with the University of British Columbia and the City University of New York, found that queer women knew alarmingly little about their sexual health.
After questioning 160 14-18-year-old lesbian and bisexual participants, many were left without the information they needed to have healthy sex lives, said the article in the Journal of Adolescent Health .
Many didn’t realise that dental dams can be used during oral sex to prevent stis , while others were unaware that you can catch STIs from sex toys.
“Participants told us, they ’literally had never heard of dental dams,’ or thought STIs weren’t a concern when having sex with girls,” said UCB researcher Jennifer Wolowic to Newnownext.com .
“Many [girls] told us they didn’t find their sex-ed programs, if they even had one, to be very informative,” Wolowic added.
“And even when they asked questions, the focus on heterosexual sex made them feel uncomfortable.”
In the US, there are are 11 states with no sex education or HIV education mandate, including Florida, Texas and Arizona.
Only 17 states out of the 50 mandate that sex education with information on contraception is taught in schools.
In the UK, LGB sex education and other queer identities are not taught about at schools. You can change that by adding your thoughts in to the government’s sex education consultation here .
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Alarming numbers of queer women are unaware of dental dams and the fact that they can contract an STI from another woman, a study has shown.
The research, conducted by researchers at the Center for Innovative Public Health Research in collaboration with the University of British Columbia and the City University of New York, found that queer women knew alarmingly little about their sexual health.
After questioning 160 14-18-year-old lesbian and bisexual participants, many were left without the information they needed to have healthy sex lives, said the article in the Journal of Adolescent Health .
Many didn’t realise that dental dams can be used during oral sex to prevent stis , while others were unaware that you can catch STIs from sex toys.
“Participants told us, they ’literally had never heard of dental dams,’ or thought STIs weren’t a concern when having sex with girls,” said UCB researcher Jennifer Wolowic to Newnownext.com .
“Many [girls] told us they didn’t find their sex-ed programs, if they even had one, to be very informative,” Wolowic added.
“And even when they asked questions, the focus on heterosexual sex made them feel uncomfortable.”
In the US, there are are 11 states with no sex education or HIV education mandate, including Florida, Texas and Arizona.
Only 17 states out of the 50 mandate that sex education with information on contraception is taught in schools.
In the UK, LGB sex education and other queer identities are not taught about at schools. You can change that by adding your thoughts in to the government’s sex education consultation here .
More:
#sexedforall ,
bi ,
lesbian ,
Queer ,
sex education ,
sex education for women ,
UK sex education ,
US ,
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For Carren Strock, the revelation came when she was 44. She had met her husband - "a terrific guy, very sweet" - at high school when she was 16, had been married to him for 25 years, had two dearly loved children, and what she describes as a "white-picket-fence existence" in New York. Then, one day, sitting opposite her best friend, she realised: "Oh my God. I'm in love with this woman." The notion that she might be a lesbian had never occurred to her before. "If you'd asked me the previous year," she says, "I would have replied: 'I know exactly who and what I am - I am not a lesbian, nor could I ever be one."'
From that moment Strock's understanding of her sexuality changed completely. She felt compelled to tell her friend, but her attraction wasn't reciprocated; at first she wasn't sure whether she had feelings for women in general, or just this one in particular. But she gradually came to realise, and accept, that she was a lesbian. She also started to realise that her experience wasn't unusual.
Cynthia Nixon and her partner Christine Marinoni.
Strock decided to interview other married women who had fallen in love with women, "putting up fliers in theatres and bookstores. Women started contacting me from across the country - everyone knew someone who knew someone in this situation." The interviews became a book, Married Women Who Love Women , and when it came to writing the second edition, Strock turned to the internet for interviewees. "Within days," she says, "more women had contacted me than I could ever actually speak to."
Late-blooming lesbians - women who discover or declare same-sex feelings in their 30s and beyond - have attracted increasing attention over the last few years, partly due to the clutch of glamorous, high-profile women who have come out after heterosexual relationships. Cynthia Nixon, for instance, who plays Miranda in Sex and the City , was in a heterosexual relationship for 15 years, and had two children, before falling for her current partner, Christine Marinoni, in 2004. Last year, it was reported that the British singer Alison Goldfrapp, who is in her mid-40s, had started a relationship with film editor Lisa Gunning. The actor Portia de Rossi was married to a man before coming out and falling in love with the comedian and talkshow host, Ellen DeGeneres, whom she married in 2008. And then there's the British retail adviser and television star, Mary Portas, who was married to a man for 13 years, and had two children, before getting together with Melanie Rickey, the fashion-editor-at-large of Grazia magazine. At their civil partnership earlier this year the pair beamed for the cameras in beautiful, custom-made Antonio Berardi dresses.
The subject has now begun attracting academic attention. Next month at the American Psychological Association's annual convention in San Diego, a session entitled Sexual Fluidity and Late-Blooming Lesbians is due to showcase a range of research, including a study by Christan Moran, who decided to look at the lives of women who had experienced a same-sex attraction when they were over 30 and married to a man. Moran is a researcher at Southern Connecticut University, and her study was prompted in part by an anguished comment she found on an online message board for married lesbians, written by someone who styled herself "Crazy".
"I don't understand why I can't do the right thing," she wrote. "I don't understand why I can't make myself stop thinking about this other woman." Moran wanted to survey a range of women in this situation, "to help Crazy, and others like her, see that they are not abnormal, or wrong to find themselves attracted to other women later in life".
She also wanted to explore the notion, she writes, that "a heterosexual woman might make a full transition to a singular lesbian identity . . . In other words, they might actually change their sexual orientation." As Moran notes in her study, this possibility is often ignored; when a person comes out in later life, the accepted wisdom tends to be that they must always have been gay or bisexual, but just hid or repressed their feelings. Increasingly researchers are questioning this, and investigating whether sexuality is more fluid and shifting than is often suspected.
Sarah Spelling, a former teacher, says she can well understand how "you can slide or slip or move into another identity". After growing up in a family of seven children in Birmingham, central England, Spelling met her first serious partner, a man, when she was at university. They were together for 12 years, in which time they were "fully on, sexually," she says, although she adds that she has never had an orgasm with a man through penetrative sex.
Spelling is a keen feminist and sportsperson, and met lesbian friends through both of these interests. "I didn't associate myself with their [sexuality] - I didn't see myself as a lesbian, but very clearly as a heterosexual in a longstanding relationship." When a friend on her hockey team made it clear she fancied her, "and thought I would fancy her too, I was like 'No! That's not me!' That just wasn't on my compass." Then, aged 34, having split up with her long-term partner, and in another relationship with a man, she found herself falling in love with her housemate - a woman. After "lots of talking together, over a year or so," they formed a relationship. "It was a meeting of minds," says Spelling, "a meeting of interests. She's a keen walker. So am I. She runs. So do I. We had lots in common, and eventually I realised I didn't have that with men." While having sex with a man had never felt uncomfortable or wrong, it wasn't as pleasurable as having sex with a woman, she says. From the start of the relationship, she felt completely at ease, although she didn't immediately define herself as a lesbian. "I didn't define myself as heterosexual either - I qui
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