Forced to be Feminine: Boyfriend to Lesbian: A Forced Feminisation Novel

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So when they [trans women] are trying to find partners, when lesbian women say 'we want women', and heterosexual women say they want a heterosexual man, that leaves trans women isolated from relationships, and possibly feeling very let down by society, angry, upset and feeling that the world is out to get them," she said.

Mental distress was assessed with a 10-item short screening scale developed by Kessler and colleagues (Cronbach’s alpha .

In terms of the women’s sexual behavior, we assessed lifetime number of female partners (based on the women’s responses, answers were categorized as: 1, 2 to 4, 5 to 9, and 10 or more) and lifetime number of male partners (based on the responses, answers were categorized as: 0, 1, 2 or more). As mentioned, due to the cross-sectional study design it is not possible to establish the temporal precedence of women’s experiences of forced sex and their other life circumstances (such as education, employment and income) as well as their current health and psychosocial statuses.

Because the risk of sexual transmission of HIV between women is assumed to be low if not nonexistent, lesbian women and other women who have sex with women (WSW) are generally not seen as vulnerable to HIV infection. The majority of women said they were only sexually attracted to women and identified as lesbian or gay. Showing roughness in a beautiful way”: talk about love, coercion, and rape in South African youth sexual culture. Study findings indicate that despite the image of invulnerability, HIV/AIDS is a reality for lesbian and bisexual women in Southern Africa.Compared to women in Namibia, women in Botswana and South Africa were less likely to have a history of forced sex experiences with both men and women. Participants who experienced forced sex by men were more likely to report drug problems, mental distress and lower sense of belonging.

The scale included feelings such as: feeling tired for no good reason, nervousness, feeling so nervous that nothing could calm you down, feeling hopeless, and feeling that everything was an effort. In addition to women’s sexual behavior, we assessed lifetime recreational drug use and use of needles for intravenous drugs. Rose made the video in response to a series of tweets by trans athlete Veronica Ivy, then known as Rachel McKinnon, who wrote about hypothetical scenarios where trans people are rejected, and argued that "genital preferences" are transphobic. Given the fact that the expression of same-sex sexuality in the Southern African context quite often intersects with gender nonconformity, we also assessed women’s perception of themselves as masculine and feminine, with two three-item scales [39]. It’s the idea that heterosexuality is assumed and forced upon women, and therefore women feel forced into being attracted to men, even when they might not be.Sexual attraction (to women only versus to women and men) and sexual identification (lesbian/gay versus other) were not associated with reporting forced sex experiences. identifying as colored (mixed race; a formal racial classification resulting from the apartheid regime) and the remainder (8. I realized that I wasn’t attracted to him — I was just uncomfortable, forcing my body to do something that, in my core, I didn’t want to do. With the media, do you think you'd enjoy written media more or are you wanting to try things like T.

Self-administered questionnaires were filled out individually in places that were experienced by the participants as ‘safe’; these places included offices of the community-based organizations, private homes of the participants themselves or their friends, university facilities, cars, or public spaces such as parks and restaurants. This study is based on data collected as part of a collaborative endeavor involving various Southern African community-based organizations.While there were two parallel sets of follow-up questions asked about forced sex by men and by women, if women had more than one experience of forced sex by either sex, separate instances of forced sex by people of the same gender could not be differentiated in terms of their seriousness, frequency and character. the bad representation of lesbian sex may also mean i don't really understand what lesbian sex is truly like. For lesbian and bisexual women it could be that sense of belonging to a sexual minority community and to the community more generally are both of importance for their wellbeing [ 25, 26]. To address this gap, we conducted a community-based survey among a sample of lesbian women and other WSW in Southern Africa to assess the prevalence of HIV-testing and HIV infection, and to identify the characteristics of women who reported to be HIV-positive among those that had been tested.