LONDON (Reuters) – Lesbians are just as likely as heterosexual women
to get sexually transmitted diseases such as hepatitis and genital
herpes, Australian researchers said on Tuesday.

Since hepatitis is also an injected-dope disease, all that likely means is
that lesbians are as likely to use injected dope as are straight women.

Genital herpes? It spreads just fine mouth-to-genital or genital-to-mouth,
whether you are straight, gay, or lesbian. (Monica may have acquired the
First Boyfriend’s herpes that way – remember how he told her at times he
couldn’t have oral sex with her, because his herpes was acting up?)

“We demonstrated a higher prevalence of bacterial vaginosis (vaginal
disease), hepatitis C and HIV risk behaviors in women who have sex with
other women compared >with (other women),” Dr Katherine Fethers said in
a report in the journal Sexually Transmitted Infections.

Just what does this really mean?

Does it just mean the well-known (among lesbians) fact that a major HIV risk
factor – needle drug use – is more common among lesbians than among straight
women?

She and her colleagues said only 7% of the women who had female sex
partners said they had never had sex with a man.

Like gay men, lesbians often don’t accept themselves until after a
considerable period of straight dating – and, unfortunately often marriage.

It would thus be surprising if typical lesbians had “never” had sex with a
man – not even when in their early teens.