Lesbian acceptance and the truth of very poor health
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The main-stream media took a rather sanitized look at these goings-on; and relegated them to just another Madonna publicity stunt. Gay culture took it more seriously: as a first serious push into American popular culture.
Subsequently, Madonna’s album “Erotica” flopped as did her semi-pornographic film “Body of Evidence.” Madonna regrouped, dropped much of the bisexual persona, and reinvented herself again as a wife, mother, political activist, serious dramatic actress, and music producer.
Then, just as suddenly as she dumped lesbian-chic, Madonna rode it triumphantly back into the spot-light when she ceremonially kissed both Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera at the 2003 MTV Music Video Awards.
Then, just as suddenly as she dumped lesbian-chic, Madonna rode it triumphantly back into the spot-light when she ceremonially kissed both Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera at the 2003 MTV Music Video Awards.
Over 10 years later, we are now all living with the stinking fruits of this vampiristic curse of perverted blood sucking: it’s become routine for celebrity neophytes, and even established stars, to perform acts of lesbianism in public. The most infamous: supermodel Cara Delevingne kissing actress Michelle Rodriguez at a basketball game; actress Sienna Miller and Car’s model sister Poppy; Rihanna and Shakira; Katy Perry and fellow singer Miley Cyrus kissing at show in Los Angeles.
And, here, Katy Perry, after the sudden and unexpected collapse and mental problems experienced by Spears, has become the true inheritor of the Madonna spell: for, in her hit single – “I Kissed a Girl,” she ushered in a new era, masked as sugary pop, of lesbian acceptance, experimentation, and glamorization. The reality is less than enticing.
According to the CDC: “Lesbians and bisexual women have a higher rate of obesity, smoking, and stress; Lesbians are less likely than heterosexual women to have had a full-term pregnancy. Hormones released during pregnancy and breastfeeding are thought to protect women against breast, endometrial, and ovarian cancers; Lesbians are more likely to smoke than heterosexual women are, and bisexual women are the most likely to smoke.
This increases the risk for lung cancer in all women who have sex with women; lesbian and bisexual women report higher rates of depression and anxiety than other women do.
Bisexual women are even more likely than lesbians to have had a mood or anxiety disorder; heavy drinking and drug abuse appear to be more common among lesbians (especially young women) than heterosexual women. Lesbian and bisexual women are also more likely to drink alcohol and smoke marijuana in moderation than other women are. Bisexual women are the most likely to have injected drugs, putting them at a higher risk for sexually transmitted infections.”
