Why Women Are Leaving Men For Other Women

[kingair]

Who would want those two anyway.

Lately, a new kind of sisterly love seems to be in the air. In the past few years, Sex and the City's Cynthia Nixon left a boyfriend after a decade and a half and started dating a woman (and talked openly about it).

"Sex and the City" star Cynthia Nixon and her partner Christine Marinoni, left, at a 2008 reception.

Actress Lindsay Lohan and DJ Samantha Ronson flaunted their relationship from New York to Dubai. Katy Perry's song "I Kissed a Girl" topped the charts. "The L Word," "Work Out," and "Top Chef" are featuring gay women on TV, and there's even talk of a ###### reality show in the works.

Certainly nothing is new about women having sex with women, but we've arrived at a moment in the popular culture when it all suddenly seems almost fashionable -- or at least, acceptable.

Statistics on how many women have traded boyfriends and husbands for girlfriends are hard to come by. Although the U.S. Census Bureau keeps track of married, divorced, single, and even same-sex partners living together, it doesn't look for the stories behind those numbers.

But experts like Binnie Klein, a Connecticut-based psychotherapist and lecturer in Yale's department of psychiatry, agree that alternative relationships are on the rise.

"It's clear that a change in sexual orientation is imaginable to more people than ever before, and there's more opportunity -- and acceptance -- to cross over the line," says Klein, noting that a half-dozen of her married female patients in the past few years have fallen in love with women. "Most are afraid that if they don't go for it, they'll end up with regrets."

Feminist philosopher Susan Bordo, Ph.D, a professor of English and gender and women's studies at the University of Kentucky and author of "Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body," also agrees that in the current environment, more women may be stepping out of the conventional gender box.

[fichtion]

and

[Mist-Rest]

and

just where is that Sand Bar????

[north coast]

I like les.....s

[Sea N Double]

dont need a psychotherapist from yale to confirm this, its been happening for a long time, and is acceptable

[A Few Dollars]

Why Women Are Leaving Men For Other Women

Um, you gotta ask?

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[Trollnheel]

AFD, is that you in the 2nd picture?

[Garett]

I think the frightening side of things here is, when a person turns to their own gender for love and compasion because they can't cut it with the opposite sex, what the heck are they going to do when they find they fall short with their same sex?

[farmerjane]

The REALLY FRIGHTENING side of things is that there's a guy out there that thinks he looks COOL~!

That guy is CLEARLY warding off not only vampires but WOMEN.........and anything ELSE that might wander into his path ~

Note to Wiley - need to add the emoticon that's hurling.

[kingair]

The REALLY FRIGHTENING side of things is that there's a guy out there that thinks he looks COOL~!

That guy is CLEARLY warding off not only vampires but WOMEN.........and anything ELSE that might wander into his path ~

Note to Wiley - need to add the emoticon that's hurling.

This one?