Obesity has long been a problem within the lesbian community. According to one study: “lesbian women were the only sexual orientation group that was significantly different from heterosexual women with regard to overweight or obesity. Lesbian women were more likely to be overweight (OR = 2.25; 95% [CI] = 1.22, 4.16) and more likely to be obese (OR = 2.25; 95% CI = 1.12, 4.53) compared with heterosexual women. Even after adjustment for demographic characteristics and parity, this pattern continued. Lesbian women remained the only sexual orientation group significantly different from heterosexual women in that they had higher odds of being overweight (OR = 2.69; 95% CI = 1.40, 5.18) and obese (OR = 2.47; 95% CI = 1.19, 5.09).” What is the cause of this tendency for lesbians to be overweight? For the answer, here are the results from another study; taken from “Incidence of Gay Men and Lesbians Having Been Sexually Abused During Childhood Or Adolescence,”Jessica Lynne Jones Steed Alliant International University, Fresno, 2008: “This study examined the incidence of gay men and lesbians having been sexually abused during childhood or adolescence. The subjects consisted of 280 non-clinical adult participants from gay/lesbian organizations in the Central California who completed a demographic and molestation information questionnaire. Molestation was reported by 42 (30.7%) of gay men with 20 (47.6%) perceived gay/lesbian/bisexual and 8 (19.1%) perceived heterosexual perpetrators. Molestation was reported by 59 (41.3%) lesbians with 21 (35.6%) perceived gay/lesbian/bisexual and 17 (28.8%) perceived heterosexual perpetrators.” Taken as a whole: 78.3% of gay and bisexual men were molested as children and 79.6% of gay and bisexual women. In my own experience, and through my outreach to the gay community, the adult response to such trauma varies; most often by sex: males tend to later eroticize the abuse and oftentimes seek out love and affirmation through quasi-reenactments – an obsession with the hyper-masculine “daddy” image or through multiple partners and a reckless abandonment to perversity; women, tend not to act out such as men and swerve towards internalizing the pain. In weight gain, lesbians create a sort of armored shielding – it seemingly protects them, but also submerges their being into a sort of fetishized woman: this is symbolized by the ancient fertility gods of early Man – the corpulent Venus of Willendorf remains the penultimate example. Once, as a gay man observing the female lesbian community, I often thought they were all awash in a sea of hormones: relationships were complicated and highly fraught with emotion; this was the opposite of the lavatory one-night stands so prone in the gay male sector. As in all homosexual communities – the result is a one-sex “china-syndrome” melt-down: where the missing tempering complementary of the opposite sex makes everything turn in on itself; sequentially, you get this morphing of the masculine and the feminine into an ugly exaggeration. And, at worse, those affected begin to destroy themselves: either by over-eating or by rampant promiscuity and the rise of virulent diseases.
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