Girls Just Want To Be…With Girls

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Research shows greater sexual fluidity among women. This could be because of biology or because they’re disappointed by men or because men are trapped in more rigid identities.

There’s a thing that still happens at parties when Katy Perry’s 2008 chartbuster

I Kissed a Girl

starts playing. Some women act like an electric current has pulled them together, in some intense, inchoate emotion. Maybe it’s something they have only fantasised about, or experimented with secretly. Nobody will be scoring them on a quiz. In the song itself, a girl kisses another girl just to try it, she likes it, and hopes her boyfriend won’t mind it. Perry got some hate for ‘trivialising’

queer female sexuality

, ‘performing it for the gaze of men’. But that’s not why women are still dancing excitedly to her tune.
It connects with something that’s shifted this century. From California, Kuala Lumpur and Amsterdam to India, many women coming of age now are less likely to see

sexual identity

as the iron cage in which their elders grew up. They are more open to the concept of

sexual fluidity

.

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