Rough and Tumble: Four Hot Lesbian Stories

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These gender norms can directly contribute to distrust of a victim's claims, says Lisa Langenderfer-Magruder, co-author of a recent study of LGBTQ intimate partner violencein Colorado. The consequences of coming forward with sexual assault allegations are fraught for any sexual violence survivor. Others had come to see LP, one of the lesbian musicians headlining this trip, or because — like me — they’d seen the iconic L Word episode that takes place aboard an Olivia cruise.

Shot guerilla style in 1980s New York City, the film is an inventive mash-up of energizing original musical numbers, free-wheeling handheld action shots, and news footage of actual demonstrations and police violence. Humming with the electricity of repressed sexuality finally breaking free, “Pariah” follows teenage Alike (Adepero Oduye) as she embraces her queerness and masculine gender expression.Many people have a difficult time believing that a woman could be capable of inflicting violence on another person. Stephanie Trilling, manager of community awareness and prevention services at the Boston Area Rape Crisis (BARCC), observes that for her queer female clients who have been assaulted by women, the first hurdle is simply understanding the assault as rape. Fantasy —that necessity of queer adolescence that often lingers in adulthood —becomes increasingly real for the two friends, who retreat further into their shared delusions. Another reliable way to avoid sexually transmitted infections is to stay in a long-term relationship with only one partner who isn't infected.

According to reports, the victim alleged that what started as a consensual sexual encounter at an off-campus apartment turned violent when she was placed in handcuffs, slapped across the face after withdrawing her consent, slashed across the abdomen with a knife, and sexually assaulted as one of the perpetrators held down her legs. She places herself between my legs, leans over to my ear, and whispers, "Tell me you want me to fuck you. A noir thriller starring Gina Gershon and Jennifer Tilly as ex-con Corky and femme fatale Violet, “Bound” gave the world the most sumptuous partners in crime that queer cinema has ever seen. Jamie described recently attending the Ohio Lesbian Festival, an annual event that celebrates and welcomes “all womyn,” from which she flew home in tears.

As I walked around the ship, which holds over 2,000 passengers, it was already clear that the average woman here was a couple decades older than me. The issue's lack of national attention means that data is slim, but a 2005 survey by the California Coalition Against Sexual Assault(CALCASA) concluded that one in three lesbian-identified participants had been sexually assaulted by a woman, and one in four had experienced violence within a lesbian relationship.

You left some of your shit here last time so you should be good to go after I get out of the shower," she shuffles into her small bedroom, around the corner from me, for a total of 45 seconds before quickly reappearing with two sets of clothes, " I'm gonna go shower so try to die of 'internal bleeding' while I'm gone, you big baby. Plus, I wasn’t assigned this story to go and passively report out what everybody else was doing on the cruise; I was supposed to immerse myself in the experience (while, of course, disclosing to anyone I spoke with that I was writing about the trip). When Alaina shared her rapist's name with the campus police officer back in 2012, the tone of the conversation changed immediately.But there are some specific health concerns that lesbians and other women who have sex with women need to be aware of. Because we were together, I thought that she had the right to have sex with me the way she wanted," Sarah explains.

Sexual and gender minority women (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, plus): Medical and reproductive care. Last year, I wrote up a BuzzFeed News/Whitman Insight Strategies poll in which we found that lesbians make up only 16% of the LGBT population in the US; younger women are much less likely than older women to identify as such. We started making out (I was still peeing) and almost right away, I began writing a goofy story about it in my head, thinking about how I’d relay the anecdote to my friends (“So I had sex in the bathroom of a catamaran?Initially banned in its home country of Kenya, this tender queer romance pulses with bright colors and the electric butterflies of young love. When someone is confronted with a situation that doesn't quite fit that major narrative, they may question its validity," she says. When we met, we’d been two postgrad dirtbags, drinking beer out of paper bags in the park on weekday afternoons, sleeping on air mattresses and in hallways. As I'm about to reach into my panties again she stops me, "No, remove your panties, shuffle back onto the bed, spread your legs, and THEN fuck yourself. I was the one who never really felt like initiating, or at least not with anywhere near the regularity we’d had as a hormone-crazed new couple.