Numerous factors have been shown to be associated with increased risk for various health problems.
Today we present general information about some of the factors that put
women at higher risk of cancer. As for lesbian health research in
general, information is limited on the prevalence of particular health risk
factors among lesbians. The Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) provides
one useful source of data for looking at differences between lesbian and
heterosexual women in the study in terms of certain health-related risk
variables. see them below:
1. Religious Implication or Wrath of God
Lev. 18:22, “You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination.”1
Lev. 20:13, “If there is a man who lies with a male as those who lie
with a woman, both of them have committed a detestable act; they shall
surely be put to death. Their bloodguiltness is upon them”
Unlike
other sins, homosexuality has a heavy judgment administered by God
Himself upon those who commit it – and support it. This judgment is
simple in that those who practice it are given over to their passions –
which means that their hearts are allowed to be hardened by their sins.
“For
this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women
exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, 27 and in
the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman
and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing
indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of
their error,” (Rom. 1:26-27).
As a result, they can no longer see
the error of what they are doing. They will not seek forgiveness. They
will die in their sins. They will face God’s holy condemnation. But,
that isn’t all. In addition to the judgment of being given over to their
sin, those involved in it also promote it and condemn others who don’t
approve of their behavior.
“…and, although they know the
ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of
death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those
who practice them,” (Rom. 1:32).
So, in their hearty approval of
homosexuality they encourage others to be trapped in their sinfulness.
They will not trust in Christ’s redemptive work on the cross. Without
Jesus, they will have no forgiveness. Without forgiveness, they will
have no salvation. Without salvation, there is only damnation in eternal
hell. But, we don’t want this for anyone.
2. High Rate of STDs and HIV
They
suffer a high rate of STDs due to the unprotected sex that always occur
in a girl to girl sexaul intercourse…they engage in a lot of fondling,
intense fingering, mouth-to-vagina sex intercourse and mouth-to-anus
sexual intercourse [in which they suck up vaginal and anal fluids of
their partner whom they are not even sure of their sex life…because the partner
might as well be bisuexual meaning…she sleeps with both men and
women…and will definitely have unprotected sex with 4 out of 12 men
because of the reluctancy in protected sex awareness that has gone numb
from the already existing unprotected sex with her female counterparts. and lesbians never keep one partner…they
get down one sensing that you are one of them and will suck up all
their vaginal and anal fluids asap…while fingering with either dirty
hands or unsterilized sex toys that must have been used by or one their
numerous partners or encounters. thereby making the circulation of STDs and HIV amongst them to be on the high side
3. Overweight.
Body mass index
(BMI), an indication of overweight, differed significantly between
lifetime lesbians and heterosexual women in the WHI, with a greater
proportion of lifetime lesbians having a BMI of more than 27 (52.3% of
lifetime lesbians compared to 45.8% of heterosexual women).
4. History of Pregnancy.
Women who reported having a lesbian sexual identity were least likely to have children (30%), and those reporting a heterosexual identity were most likely to have children
(73%). Slightly more than half (58%) of those reporting any lesbian
same-sex orientation (identity, behavior, or desire) indicated that they
had biological children. Thus, although lesbians are less likely to report having biological children than are heterosexual women, there are still substantial numbers
of lesbians who are parents, particularly if these figures include
adoptive or other nonbiological parents. In the WHI sample, lesbians
were much less likely to have ever been pregnant than were heterosexual
women. These differences were particularly pronounced for lifetime
lesbians of whom 34.1% had previously been pregnant, compared to 61.2%
of the mature lesbians and 89.9% of the heterosexual women.
5. The Health Impacts of Stress
Lesbians, similar to other stigmatized individuals, likely experience
stress related to the difficulties of living in a homophobic society.
Stress may result from the burden of keeping one’s lesbian identity
secret from family or coworkers, being excluded by physicians from
making health care decisions for a gravely ill lesbian partner or, among
many other factors, being the target of violence or other hate crimes.
Hostility and isolation are very potent forms of stress that contribute
to allostatic load by leading to elevated levels of the stress hormones
(McEwen, 1998; Powch and Houston, 1996).
Although the precise
health effects of stress on lesbians have not yet been examined
systematically, some hypotheses can be made about their possible health risk
based on information about both the stress effects of discrimination on
other groups and the stress effects of socioeconomic status.9 It can be
hypothesized that lesbians who experience such forms of psychosocial
stress sustain negative effects similar to those of other groups that
experience discrimination.
It can also be hypothesized that stress effects may be greatest for lesbians who are subject to multiple forms of discrimination.
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