Real lesbian couples

Because we can all use some more romance in our lives: here are 10 true lesbian stories as told by 10 lesbian couples! All lesbian love stories are different, which makes all of them so beautiful. But how does a lesbian romance like that start? And then there are lesbian couples who met in real life!

While lesbian stories in SA are often marred by a crime of corrective rape and other homophobic violence, there are many lesbian couples who experience romantic freedom and passionate love. The couple has been together for a year-and-a-half. They met on Facebook but Mankahla friend-zoned Mvelase for three years. Their stars finally aligned three weeks after Mankahla got out of a previous relationship and they hooked up. For the couple, a rebound turned into the real deal.

Meeting women to date and marry is notoriously difficult for women seeking other females. Not only is same-sex love and marriage between two women so rarely represented in the media—there is still no equivalent rom-com meet-cutes for women meeting women today—but the dating pool for queer women is just smaller roughly five percent of American females identify as LGBTQ. A friend of mine once ran a calculation in jest to prove that she and her wife statistically were meant to be, based on the exquisitely small percentage of potentially single, queer, Jewish women within her age group, alongside a smattering of other arbitrary qualities she liked. I know it sounds corny—but it is true! In fact, my wife informed me that we were meant to spend our lives together within a couple of weeks of our first encounter.

Lesbian bed death is the concept that lesbian couples in committed relationships have less sex than any other type of couple the longer the relationship lasts, and generally experience less sexual intimacy as a consequence. The concept is based on research by social psychologist Philip Blumstein and sociologist Pepper Schwartz , published in American Couples: Money, Work, Sex , which found that lesbian couples reported lower numbers when asked "About how often during the last year have you and your partner had sex relations? Analyses of the concept have therefore regarded it as a popular myth. Pepper Schwartz is credited with coining the term lesbian bed death. The questionnaire covered various aspects of their relationship such as work, sex, children, finances, and decision-making.