“According to a recent study in Vancouver, British Columbia, young lesbian women are at a higher risk for pregnancy than their heterosexual classmates.”
It’s true. NowPublic reports in a study of 30,000 students over 10 years, lesbians had far greater rates of pregnancy than their heterosexual peers. This might not be new information. In a 1998 poll reported by the Advocate, 7.8% of all lesbian students became pregnant in comparison with 1.8% of heterosexual girls at that time.
Why? There are a lot of theories…some say that feeling ostracized would make them more likely to “act out” in risky sexual ways, others say that it is a deep effort to hide their orientation (to themselves or others).
What do you think?
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extremely bizarre. perhaps its an unwanted product of experimentation?
Well, I got married (to a member of the opposite sex) to keep myself in the closet at 18. It doesn’t surprise me that a teenage girl would be more risky as a way to “prove” her homosexuality.
Huhhhhh whaaa?
I mean, it makes some sort of sense, and I can testify to experimenting with lots of guys (to make sure it’s not just one bad hook-up…), but wasn’t there some sort of truth to that line in “But I’m a Cheerleader” that “it’s easy to be a prude if you’re not attracted to the other person”? I understand my own mild case and that of Anon’s, but as the result of a study? wow.
Hmm… interesting! Seems crazy at first, but it happened to me (got pregnant at 17… oh, and then married a man at 24… had his kid at age 30… ha ha. Ha.) I wonder what would have happened if I tried to get pregnant with a girl first. Hooray for self-awareness, even if it comes late(r) in life.
This makes some sense. You are a lesbian girl and want kids in your life, so you have a one night stand and don’t use control and you get pregnant. She doesn’t tell anyone and that is probably what some are thinking.