The officer who spoke with me didn't even think to ask the gender of my assailant until I gave her the name," she remembers. "A girl's name." More information is needed at all levels—government, collegiate, and otherwise. All the experts we spoke to point to an overall dearth of research on intimate partner violence in queer female communities as the biggest obstacle in developing more accessible resources for survivors. Alaina explained to the officer who answered that she had been sexually assaulted by a current student—that she'd been drugged, choked, and penetrated by her assailant's fingers as she faded in and out of consciousness one night five months ago. Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives , Aerlyn Weissman & Lynne Fernie , provided by the National Film Board of Canada Video player width

Redemptiontv.net is home to some of the best exploitation, sexploitation and Japanese pink films ever made. Here you will find works by the extraordinary director Jean Rollin whose unique, almost fairytale-like take on the vampire is still enthralling and gaining fans as people continue to discover his work. Also, available here are numerous examples of Pink cinema, a uniquely Japanese genre in which drama, human relationships and eroticism are mashed with humour or sometimes horror and served up as feature films that are often eccentrically individualistic, highly creative and never, ever, dull. Over 10 years later, same-sex rape on college campuses is just starting to be quantified on a national level. Haven, an online sexual assault and awareness program that logs sexual assaults directly from students, works with self-reported data from over 800 colleges and universities. Haven had never compiled a report on undergraduate women who have been assaulted by women, but teamed up with MarieClaire.com to reveal new information: While the number of reported sexual assaults by women was low compared to assaults overall (only about 2.5 percent), the most striking difference came down to the likelihood of survivors to report the incident: 30 percent of women assaulted by another woman told no one, compared to 25 of women who didn't report an assault by a man. The assistant district attorney on the case, Susan J. Loehn, says the Northampton police performed a "thorough investigation" and treated the victim "in a sensitive manner." According to reports, the victim alleged that what started as a consensual sexual encounter at an off-campus apartment turned violent when she was placed in handcuffs, slapped across the face after withdrawing her consent, slashed across the abdomen with a knife, and sexually assaulted as one of the perpetrators held down her legs. "There was an incredible amount of media attention about this case," Loehn, now executive director of Northwestern Children's Advocacy Center, remembers. Too much, in fact, for the case to make a real impact with a verdict. "This victim was overwhelmed by the media attention. Smith College is a small college. People knew all of the parties involved. There were camera crews on her doorstep." The survivor ultimately decided to drop the charges. Like many sexual assault charges that die in a courtroom, the case now looms as a cautionary tale.Yes, we took a shower together. We did not have sex. The thought of touching her never crossed my mind although we stood next to each other for thirty long minutes under a shower. We didn’t even know how we became friends, let alone best friends. Attending anatomy classes together and spending long hours over big fat books inside an eerie library decorated with skeletons brings people closer. It helped that we both came from a small town and were staying in the same hostel. One day I told her how much I love drawing and would like to sketch her. She stared at me for long before agreeing to be by muse. But that came with one condition—she wanted to see me naked. She thought I wanted to draw her nude (and I didn’t correct her). At first, the sex was good," says Sarah. "But she always wanted more than what I could give. One day she came home with a strap-on; if I loved her, she said, I would allow her to use it." Sarah wasn't interested. "It was just something that I didn't like and didn't want," she says. She declined for months, her partner repeatedly pressuring her, until one night, Sarah's partner assaulted her with the strap-on. "Even though I was crying the whole time, she never stopped," Sarah recalls. These gender norms can directly contribute to distrust of a victim's claims, says Lisa Langenderfer-Magruder, co-author of a recent study of LGBTQ intimate partner violencein Colorado. "When someone is confronted with a situation that doesn't quite fit that major narrative, they may question its validity," she says. All of this amounts to a culture in which most research on partner violence focuses on heterosexual relationships. "So, in some ways, we're playing catch up."

The third straight girl said: "If you kiss someone of the same sex... that identifies you as a gay or lesbian and I totally disagree with that."She said that Lyte warned she would get her thrown out of the prestigious Lawn Tennis Association academy if she told anyone. He said: "If it is true that you were caught by your mother having sex with the defendant, it must have been a blessed relief. Women filmed passionately kissing each other for first time to test their own sexuality in social experiment

In the video posted by YouTube personalities Bria and Chrissy, four straight women were filmed kissing other females and discussing their sexual preferences . But we were not prepared for what followed. Next day as we reached college, we knew something was different. Did people stare at us for a little longer than necessary? Did the girls stopped talking when we reached the stuffy common room? We had no idea. Lyte, of Shirley, West Midlands, denies five charges of unlawful sexual activity with a child. The case at Liverpool crown court continues. Most ReadIt’s been almost twenty years since I last saw her. But I still have the sketch I made—a shy girl with fierce eyes that dared people to do the unthinkable. Only four movies on the list were directed by men, and at least a dozen were directed by queer women, proving that when it comes to telling stories about queer women, no one does it better than us. Three queer directors, Alice Wu, Angela Robinson, and Dee Rees, each have two films in the top twenty.