I'm not sure that society is more accepting of female homosexuality than male.

I know a hell of a lot more 'out and proud' male celebrities than female.

I would say that female sexuality has been largely ignored rather than accepted in today's world. The stereotype of women 'suffering sex' lives on and the fascination of lesbianism for a lot of men, I think, is women behaving sexually, purely for the purposes of pleasure, not for the purposes of procreation or some kind of obligation to a male partner.

I would also argue that a lot of women have a far more negative view of their genitals (and therefore other women's genitals) than your average bloke, having been indoctrinated with associations of 'dirtiness' 'smelliness' and shame from an early age.

Society accepts that 'boys will play with themselves' and even that they will take sexual stimulation where they can get it (all those jokes about prisons and the Navy) but that girl's shouldn't be sexual until they reach the age of consent and even then it should be with someone they love.

As OF says, women have been allowed to show initimacy with other women in the past as it was assumed that such intimacy was not sexual, but sisterly/motherly. This has allowed for greater experimentation perhaps, as society is less quick to judge woman as a 'lesbian' but rather as 'confused' or 'just being silly'. Society, on the other hand labels a man 'queer' if he so much as kisses another man on the cheek in English speaking cultures, because we stereotype men as not being able to have physical intimacy without sex. Men fight an uphill struggle to prove that not everything they do is sexually motivated, in a way that women are fighting at the opposite end of the spectrum.

There is a lot of work to be done, in both directions I think. Women need to be accepted as sexual in themselves rather than sex objects and men need to be freed from their sexual stereotypes in order to be more physically intimate with their peers, even if they're not on a sport's field.

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