Common in popular culture these days is when you ask a grown woman if she ever kissed a girl, you often get the response, ‘Well once…in college.’ Today, a national study has found that women with their college degrees actually were less likely to have kissed a girl than their only-high-school-diploma-having counterparts.

For years, sex researchers, campus women’s centers and the media have viewed college as a place where young women explore their sexuality, test boundaries, and, often, have their first, and only lesbian relationship.

Based on 13,500 responses, almost 10% of women ages 22 to 44 with a bachelor’s degree said they had had a same-sex experience, compared with 15% of those with no high school diploma. Women with a high school diploma or some college, but no degree, fell in between. Six percent of college educated women reported oral sex with a same-sex partner, compared with 13% who did not complete high school.

Rea Carey, executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force told the Los Angeles Times in their coverage:

‘It’s like a Rubik’s cube of sexuality, where you turn it a different way, and the factors don’t fit together. It may be that the […]