Lesbian relationships
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. In the case of multiple forms of domestic partner abuse, it is also referred to as lesbian battering.[3]
The issue of domestic violence among lesbians has become a serious social concern,[4] but the topic has often been ignored, both in academic analyses and in the establishment of social services for battered women.[5] The CDC has stated that 43.8% of lesbian women reported experiencing physical violence, stalking, or rape by their partners. The study notes that, out of those 43.8%, two thirds (67.4%) reported exclusively female perpetrators. The other third reported at least one perpetrator being male, however the study made no distinction between victims who experienced violence from male perpetrators only and those who reported both male and female perpetrators. Similarly, 61.1% of bisexual women reported physical violence, stalking, or rape by their partners in the same study with 89.5% reporting at least one perpetrator being male. In contrast, 35% of heterosexual women reported having been victim of intimate partner violence, with 98.7% of them reporting male perpetrators exclusively.[6]
On Facebook, Ken Francis noted:
The National Violence Against Women survey found that 35.4% of lesbians experienced intimate-partner physical violence in their lifetimes, compared with 7.1% for women for heterosexual women. The CDC’s 2013 National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey reports that the lifetime prevalence of rape, physical violence, or stalking by an intimate partner was 43.8% for lesbians, and 35% for heterosexual women, while it was 26% for gay men, and 29% for heterosexual men.
FRA gender-based violence against women survey dataset, 2012.
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01506/full
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3138983/
https://www.standffov.org/tdvam/abuse-in-lesbian-relationships/
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