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Originally Posted by Gilda
I discovered that I liked girls more tha guys as a result of experimenting with another girl in college. I think part of it comes from girls being more free to be casually physically affectionate with each other. I chaperoned a dance Friday evening, and there were occasionally two or three girls dancing a fast dance together; this is very common, and nobody thinks twice about it. I've never seen two guys or a group of guys do the same. Girls will touch each other on the arm, or shoulder, or give casual hugs to other girls much more easily than guys do. Guys tend to express physical affection with each other through mild physical aggression, or horseplay.
Being willing to experiment may be an extension of the ways casual female friends interact with each other.
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that, and if girls want to experiment, they can be categorized in to a hetero-centrist framework of lipstick lesbianism by outside observers. the already objectified and commodified female body can touch and be sexual with another female body and not disrupt heterocentrism...
of course, homophobia also has a myriad of "or elses" and negative stereotypes for women whose sexuality does end up challenging these assumptions...but at least initially, there is social cover for female/female sexual experiementation.