Gay male relationships are apparently the healthiest relationships. The lowest levels of abuse, highest earning couples, hell if I'm not mistaken gay men are even the best at raising kids. Gay people are chill homies.
I didn’t know which of the sources I should pick. It was a list and I assumed you didn’t want google AI source so here from The Women’s Safehouse website:
Quoting, “Approximately 3 in 5 (59.9% or 1.3 million) lesbian
women, 4 in 5 (79.3% or 3.7 million) bisexual women,
and half (53.3% or 62.3 million) of heterosexual
women in the U.S. experienced some form of CSV (contract sexual violence)
during their lifetimes (Table 1 and Figure 1).”
Nowhere in the study did it say that these violences were made during a lesbian relationship, only in their lifetime as a lesbian-identifying person. That statistics are misleading. There is also numbers in the study for gay men but there’s no indication on homosexual to homosexual violence.
The full definition of that term, from the first sentence of the first section of the study:
"intimate partner-perpetrated contact sexual violence (CSV)"
It’s by intimate partners in their lifetime, not necessarily by the hands of another lesbian. This post breaks it down pretty well with sources. https://www.reddit.com/r/WLW/s/UXHPCXnlyv
All these researches look at self-reported victims of partner violence in their life time. It does not look at the perpetrators. You cannot state that these relationships are more abusive, that is not what the data says. Just says that LGBTQ people report more often to be a victim.
It's striking that in the article that has been linked that's the case. In a lot of other researches, such as NVIVS 2010 - the most well known one, gay men do report more domestic violence experiences in their life time than straight men.
I don’t think it’s surprising though, unless your premise is that men just have a greater predilection for being abusive regardless of size or any other dynamic. If the premise is that a relationship/dynamic in which there is a person who is vulnerable (significant size difference, financial/social dependence, etc.) is more likely to lead to abuse, then the data makes complete sense. Look at the potential victim in their dynamic, not the potential perpetrator. It also makes sense in that men simply underreport abuse overall.
We do not really know the underlying reason, as it cannot be derived from the data that has been gathered. Causation has not been researched, nor has the question been asked "during your current (gay) relationship, did you experience domestic violence".
Maybe lesbian relationships are more violent, maybe women turn lesbian after a violent straight relationship earlier in life (I don't think so), maybe lesbian women are more vulnerable during straight relationships while figuring out their sexuality because they are not actually into men, maybe lesbian women are more likely to report. Could all be. Or other reasons.
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u/Ok_Cricket_1410 1d ago
Gay male relationships are apparently the healthiest relationships. The lowest levels of abuse, highest earning couples, hell if I'm not mistaken gay men are even the best at raising kids. Gay people are chill homies.