The majority of women said they were only sexually attracted to women and identified as lesbian or gay.

Compared to women who never had any male sexual partners, women who had had one male sexual partner or 2 or more partners were more likely to have been tested. But, I didn’t realize queer desires could take form in an intense friendship, or that I might even mistake it with the desire to be her. Women could choose from the following alternatives: lesbian, bisexual, gay, heterosexual, and other. Essentially you have a dildo of some kind that is attached with a harness or special kind of underwear. i think i'm understanding where my non-consensual fantasies stem from, and why i don't fantasise about women the same way.This is particularly so with cases of forced sex that are motivated by the fact that the victim is a member of a sexual minority, such as in corrective rape. By documenting these experiences of women we have started to address the information gap about the prevalence, nature and consequences of forced among lesbian and bisexual women. Participants experienced forced sex by men as more serious than forced sex by women; forced sex by women was more likely to involve intimate partners compared to forced sex by men. Compared to women who only had one female sexual partner (lifetime), women with 2 to 4 partners and 5 to 9 were more likely to ever have been tested.

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. You don't see as many trans men interested in gay men so they don't get it [the pressure] as much, but you do see a lot of trans women who are interested in women, so we are disproportionately affected by it. Questionnaires were filled out individually or in small groups, 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. I was told that homosexuality doesn't exist and I owed it to my trans sisters to unlearn my 'genital confusion' so I can enjoy letting them penetrate me," she wrote.Sense of belonging to the LGBT community seemed to be negatively affected in lesbian and bisexual women who had experienced forced sex by both men and women. Studies furthermore have shown that human papillomavirus (HPV) is common among WSW, while evidence strongly suggests that HPV transmission occurs among WSW [20]– [22]. 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.