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Lesbian Sex Gets Women Off At Astronomical Rates, Our Sex Survey Shows

High femmes, women over 35 and people in relationships orgasm a whole lot during sex and other interesting things we learned about how you get off.

Riese —

Apr 29, 2015

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lesbian sex

Here Are Your Very Queer Underwear-Wearing Habits

The Ultimate Lesbian Sex Survey knows what you’ve got on underneath those jeans, and how that relates to your gender identity and presentation.

Riese —

Apr 24, 2015

Autostraddle Reader Data

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lesbian sex

Queer Women Masturbate More Than Straight Women, Our Sex Survey Says

On the masturbation practices of the 8,566 humans who took our Ultimate Lesbian Sex Survey — how they do it, for how long, how often, and “how much more than…

Riese —

Apr 13, 2015

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society + culture

Where Do Lesbians Live? New Gallup Numbers Add More Numbers To Pile Of Confusing Numbers

In which I dive into piles of mostly-confusing data to figure out where the girls are in a country where gayborhoods tend to be filled with boys.

Riese —

Mar 31, 2015

Autostraddle Reader Data

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How Often Do Queer Women Have Sex?

We’ve got all the numbers on how often you have sex from our Ultimate Lesbian Sex Survey — and some of them might surprise you!

Riese —

Mar 30, 2015

Daily Fix

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Lots Of Straight Girls Wanna Have Lesbian Sex, Yet Another Study Shows

Nearly 40% of women surveyed had fantasized about getting it on with another woman. Also have you noticed that the sky is especially blue today?

Riese —

Nov 5, 2014

Daily Fix

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society + culture

How Many People Are Queer? Probably More Than Two Percent

Alternative answer: not enough. Time to start recruiting! (…Kidding.)

Laura Mandanas —

Jul 17, 2014

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Daily Fix

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Gallup And Everyone Else Wants to Know: Were You Born This Gay?

42% of Americans believe that gay people are born rather than made.

Laura Mandanas —

Jun 3, 2014

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More Than Words: 11 “Queer” Questions From 70 Years Of Gallup Polls

What do other people think of us?! The country wants to know.

Cara —

Apr 21, 2014

Daily Fix

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society + culture

New Survey Reveals Every Other Poll About Gay People Was Probably Wrong

This week, a really significant and fascinating new study changed not only the information we have about queer people, but it may change what we know about research on queer…

Rachel —

Oct 15, 2013

Daily Fix

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love + sex

Lesbians Demolish Patriarchal Power Standards With Egalitarian Hand-Holding Habits, Study Says

Researchers wanted to find out if physical and/or psychosocial differences are predictive of hand-holding habits when gender is no longer a factor.

Riese —

Oct 1, 2013

Daily Fix

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society + culture

Survey Says: Gay is Okay in the UK, Will Probably Continue to Be

The annual British Social Attitudes survey indicates increasing acceptance of homosexuality, though same-sex adoption and parenting remain controversial.

Fikri —

Sep 16, 2013