Forced lesbian

The following night, Alaina's friend hosted a party in her dorm. [1][2] In the case of multiple forms of domestic partner abuse, it is also referred to as lesbian battering. This remains the UK’s current sexual crimes law. Since this scenario is rarely portrayed in the media or in educational programming, "it can be especially challenging to identify their experience as violence," she says.

[3]. But after rumors started to circulate about what had happened that night—and after, horrifyingly, a video surfaced that her attacker had taken as "proof" of their encounter—Alaina had had enough. Eight years later, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC conducted the first-ever national survey of intimate partner violence by sexual orientation and discovered that lesbians and gay men experience equal or higher rates of partner violence than the straight-identified population.

Thanks in part to the battered women's movement of the s and the growing awareness of the forced lesbian rape culture in the United States—from assaults on college campuses to abuse within relationships—we've been hearing a predominantly heterosexual story.

By 10 p. She found the number for campus security online, took a deep breath, and dialed. Alaina was 18 in March ofa college freshman in the middle of spring break. Another study found that nearly one in four (24%) transgender high school-aged students say they have been forced to have sex, as well as 15% of their cisgender peers.

Get exclusive access to fashion and beauty trends, hot-off-the-press celebrity news, and more. One in five (19%) lesbian, gay and bisexual high school-aged students say they have been forced to have sex, compared with 6% of straight students.

But there's a scenario that, while less frequent, is no less damaging to the victims it claims: rape between women. For five months, she didn't tell anyone about the assault, trying to focus on getting through her classes despite recurring nightmares.

Stephanie Trilling, manager of community awareness and prevention services at the Boston Area Rape Crisis BARCCobserves that for her queer female clients who have been assaulted by women, the first hurdle is simply understanding the assault as rape.

All states passed laws against marital rape by with some exceptions per statebut while some of the legal language employs the gender-neutral "spouse" to explain assaults within a marriage, other states, like Alabama and Californiadefault to "wife" for victim and "husband" for attacker.

Alcohol and Coca-Cola had been bought for mixing, but Alaina opted just for the Coke; she didn't feel like drinking that night. There, drugged and nearly unconscious, she was raped.

Lesbian Women Room to : Women raping women does, on occasion, occur; although, the vast majority of rape involves man on woman assault

By midnight, she remembers being led into an empty dorm room down the hall. Domestic violence within lesbian relationships is the pattern of violent and coercive behavior in a female same-sex relationship wherein a lesbian or other non-heterosexual woman seeks to control the thoughts, beliefs, or conduct of her female intimate partner.

Survivors are trapped in a cycle that delegitimizes their experience: first by downplaying the likelihood that it could happen at all, then by not validating it once it happens, and finally by not analyzing the data—and therefore creating awareness—after it does.

Alaina explained to the officer who answered that she had been sexually assaulted by a current student—that she'd been drugged, choked, and penetrated by her assailant's fingers as she faded in and out of consciousness one night five months ago.

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 violence in Colorado. InStonewall (the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans charity) had the law changed to recognise that men can also rape men.

All of this amounts to a culture in which most research on partner violence focuses on heterosexual relationships. She was visiting her friend at an Ivy League school for the weekend, bag packed with her favorite dress: a cotton rainbow halter that she had helped design.

The issue's lack of national attention means that data is slim, but a 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.

The party sprawled into two other adjacent dorm rooms, and suddenly Alaina felt her vision begin to blur. Sexual assault is perceived as a straight issue, perpetrated by men against women. Other freshmen arrived early to get ready and put on makeup—"nerdy outcast" forced lesbians, Alaina remembers of the tightknit group who were all acquainted with her host.

Not that they have the same protections. Woman-on-woman assault doesn't just happen on college campuses or at the hands of strangers—just like their straight counterparts, queer women often experience sexual assault within relationships.