The recent video post about Current Tv's Girls kissing girls reminded me of the following:

There was a rescent sociological study done on the reasons why College aged girls kiss other girls while identifying as heterosexual. What researchers found were three main reasons

1) For attention from heterosexual men (which then gets exploited in the media so that a lesbian identity in the media is "pornified" for men)

2) Experimentation (which is easier to do for women in a public setting especially if they are attractive by narrow societal norms)

3)They have same sex desires but no outlet or knowledge on how to express them

They also came across types of fluid sexual identity for indivisual within the college subculture. Known by the acronyms of L.U.G, B.U.G, G.U.G

L.U.G = lesbian until graduation

B.U.G - Bisexual until graduation

G.U.G Gay until graduation

This might be because, I hypothesize, that college is a cultural microcosim (sp) that exists with different social rules and norms than the larger society. Effectively it seems people regularly employ the " whatever happens in college, stays in college" mentality (which I hate , just like the vegas slogan; this promotes no accountability for personal actions). Therefore, regardless of what people do in college and how they Identify their sexuality (or not) they are expected to "shake it off" after 4 years (or more adding for graduate work) and embrace Heterosexuality. No wonder individuals who discover their [homo][bi]sexuality (or act on it for the first time) in college may be met with great resistance (to their sexuality) right out of college.

This can even apply to those indiviuduals who become sexual in college, which is a social norm and almost cultural rite of passage, as long as they follow the proper Gender Scripts i.e women can have sex as long as it is in a long term relationship, and Men can have anonymous casual sex without consequence.

If a woman is indeed having causal sex she is met with words of caution or stern words of disaproval. Meanwhile, the image of the heterosexual, sexually aggressive female in the media is seen as desirable. Thus once again all students (male and female) experience a culture shock and a period of resocialization (or attempted re socialization by the heterosexual patriarchy) of their sexuality or sexual identity when they enter and exit the college subculture.