I guess they had to get this out of the way before the Republicans came to town.
The (Minneapolis
) Star Tribune ran a column last week on being "heteroflexible."
The column by Katherine Kersten says:
"Girls making out with each other to turn on guys is the latest craze at high school and college parties," according to the online magazine Salon.com.
Still don't believe it? Listen to this summer's monster hit song, "I Kissed a Girl" by Katy Perry. It's an international phenomenon -- topping the charts all summer in America, Canada, Australia and Great Britain. [Notice it has more than 7 million views in YouTube.] A few weeks ago, Perry was a headliner at the Warped music festival at Canterbury Park in Shakopee, [Minn.,] belting out the song's provocative lyrics:
I kissed a girl and I liked it,
The taste of her cherry ChapStick,
I kissed a girl just to try it,
I hope my boyfriend don't mind it.
It felt so wrong, it felt so right.
The
Star Tribune column cites the CDC:
A 2005 survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention appeared to confirm [the trend]. It found that while 1.3 percent of women identified themselves as homosexual, 11.5 percent of women ages 18 to 44 -- and about 14 percent of women in their late teens and early 20s -- report at least one sexual encounter with another woman.
Only about 4 percent of women, ages 18 to 59, reported such an encounter in a similar survey in 1992.
"Girls making out with each other to turn on guys...
