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GAY UNTIL LABOR DAY: STRETCHG FEMALE SEXUALY THE HAMPTONS

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From “” girl Cara Delevgne’s volvements wh both women and men to Krist Stewart’s recent claratn that me not fg [myself as gay or straight] right now…is what I’m all about”; om engaged-to-a-guy Piper’s not-so-straight affairs on Orange is the New Black and even Gloria Vanrbilt’s recent revelatn, while promotg her new book, of a girl/girl dalliance at Miss Porter’s back the day; to Skirt Club, a women-only rovg party London, Miami and Manhattan, where the female owner who is married to a man says most of those who e to “play” wh other women are relatnships wh men, too—“heteroflexible” women are enterg the mastream. Articl women’s magaz (“A Closer Look at Women Who’ve Left Their Hbands for Other Women, ” for stance) and headl that alternately tmpet and vociferoly ny that studi show women’s preferenc are “mostly gay or bi, ” give all a news-y sp.

Meredh Chivers, associate profsor of psychology, at Queen’s Universy Canada found that women may have more tegory-fyg tennci than men (straight women are more likely to be exced by lbian porn than straight men are by gay male porn, for example), and be turned on by a wir array of imag and fantasi. The women refed tl like “gay” or “bisexual, ” intifyg themselv stead as motivated by what they scribed as their “strong” libidos and “eaks” to search for clanste sexual enunters wh other women. While we’re rethkg tegori, as such behavrs might lead to do, let’s put to rt the notn that ’s all “jt a phase” for younger women who are “gay until graduatn”; a recent Glamour survey of 1, 015 women between 18 and 44 found 47 percent had been attracted to another woman, and nearly 1 3 reported a sexual experience wh another woman.

And that we might need new vobulary— addn to straight, bi and gay—to scribe . “Opportuny” looks a ltle different the Hamptons, among a group of largely non-workg women who are out East for the whole summer, often attendg sex-segregated luncheons and fundraisers and tnk shows, socializg weekday evengs wh mostly other women, and workg assiduoly on their bodi the prence and wh the guidance of female traers, some of them gay, while their hbands work the cy.

GAY UNTIL LABOR DAY: STRETCHG FEMALE SEXUALY THE HAMPTONS

Her viral Huffgton Post Science piece “Hooray for Gay Animals” addrsed the spectm of sexual behavr a variety of animal speci—cludg our own. All this may be a summer cktail potent enough to renr some avowedly heterosexual women, as the data suggt is not unmon, somethg else as well: “segrexuals” who are “gay until Labor Day. Text 'GAYTRAVEL' to 1-800-GAY-TRAVEL (1-800-429-8728).