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[goldenhera]

Girls Kissing Girls: Explaining the Trend 
By Jeffrey Kluger

Britney and Madonna did it; so did Scarlett Johansson and Sandra Bullock. And so do women in bars, at mixers, on the street and, increasingly, in private - especially when those women are college students. The “it” is the kiss, of course, and even before Katy Perry celebrated the all-girl

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[mythrai]

I have a lot of feelings about this, but it mostly boils down to my disappointment at how my sexuality was treated by my peers in college.

[hannastar]

Ugh. That article is such a weird, frustrating mixture of bullshit and insight.

"It's usually brought on by, I don't know, like shots or drinking or people kind of saying something to like cheer it on or whatever," said one female student the professors interviewed. "And it's usually done in order to turn guys on or to seek male attention in some way."

Are they using statements like this as data??? How can you draw conclusions about the motivation behind actions from the assumptions of interviewees? Is this woman talking about her own motivations, or is this just how she percieves the actions of others? This reads like an argument in a bar, not an anthropological study, and I can't tell whether it's bad science or bad reportage or both. Aargh!

For other girls - those on their way to coming out as lesbians, or just discovering their orientation themselves - girl-girl kissing, particularly in a party setting, provides a safe and comfortable glide path in what can often be a rocky transition. Tell yourself you're kissing girls just to

[indifferenthues]

Are they using statements like this as data??? How can you draw conclusions about the motivation behind actions from the assumptions of interviewees? Is this woman talking about her own motivations, or is this just how she perceives the actions of others? This reads like an argument in a bar, not an anthropological study, and I can't tell whether it's bad science or bad reportage or both. Aargh!

This

Additionally I tried to trace the article back and look at the original research and found:

(1) an "unfortunate" Time magazine article with the following tags, "bi-curious, heteroflexibility, lesbian till graduation, Love & Family, LTG, male gaze, Sexuality". Where is the word Bisexual? Even worse why is it LGT with no "B"????
(2) a "pay lots of money for this important research work" page
(3) links to their "reference materials", a video of Katy Perry's "I Kissed a Girl" video and a clip from "The Tyra Banks Show" on girls kissing.
(4) a picture of what I presume is the the two (females) researchers, kissing each other (!).

[yasonablack]

Perhaps the biggest - for better or worse - of the other three reasons is a desire for attention, typically from boys.

Uh no. That's only what you think because for some inexplicable reason you're obviously insecure and homophobic.

Besides, my first "girl girl" kiss was done in a "woman's" bathroom with no guys watching because she said, "do you know what a French kiss is?" and I was like, "no?" And then she showed me. Certainly wasn't for the benefit of any men. /Cool story

But UGH this article. UGH.

[brittlesmile]

Rupp and Taylor point out that the same kind of gradual transitioning may explain why so many lesbian girls' first same-sex experience is in a threesome that involves a male

I know that my experience is not universal, but this is totally contrary to what I've heard in the lesbian community. Are they actually citing some sort of research here or is 'so many' just 'some unverified amount that we're calling statistically significant because it's better for our argument'?

[barbituratecat]

That line really smacks of "Women are only lesbians because they had a threesome with their husband/boyfriend, and now ANARCHY!!"

[brecho]

THEY KNOW IT BECAUSE OF THEIR LEARNINGS.

FROM PORN.

[loser_anda_user]

lol this article i don't even...