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Maybe the fat ones(usually the ugly dike looking ones) turned to lesbianism because no strait man wanted to put their dick in their pegina
I've been all over the NIH and Brigham and Women's Hospital websites and can't find anything about it. A Google news search comes up empty too.
Assuming it is true, the story linked above notes that the study was begun in 2011, long before sequester and it notes that additional funding is in question because of it.
In other words....barring additional evidence....thread fail.
$1.5 million isn't really that much and leebian women gave as much right to benefit from medical research as any other group. What's next? Are we going to get articles about Tay-Sachs or sickle cell research?
The University of Illinois has received grants since 2009 for its project, "Cumulative Stress and Hazardous Drinking in a Community of Adult Lesbians," which aims to develop culturally sensitive strategies to prevent lesbians from being drunks. Studies using both probability and nonprobability samples provide ample evidence of lesbians' vulnerability to hazardous drinking, the grants description reads. However, very little is known about the factors that increase lesbians' risk for hazardous drinking. We propose to build on and extend our study of sexual identity and drinking to model effects of cumulative stress on hazardous drinking among lesbians.
The researchers theorize that lesbians report higher rates of traumatic events, making them more likely to engage in hazardous drinking, which has been defined by NIHs National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism as more than 7 drinks per week or more than 3 drinks per occasion for women. Furthermore, the problem may be worse for lesbians of color, the researchers say. The grant states that there are chronic stressors unique to sexual minorities, creating cumulative stress that may be compounded in lesbians of color.
The study is being led by Tonda Hughes, professor at the Department of Health Systems Science at the University of Illinois, an internationally recognized expert in the area of alcohol use among lesbians, according to the University. The researchers are using a sample of 384 adult lesbians50 percent of whom are a racial or ethnic minoritywho were interviewed in 2000 and 2004, and a new panel of 250 lesbians. The grant states that the new panel was oversampled with Black and Latina lesbians, and young lesbians ages 18 to 25.
The specific aims of the study include: to test models of the relationships between cumulative stress and hazardous drinking in lesbians, and the relationships between early and later risk factors and hazardous drinking. The study will try to determine whether childhood sexual abuse, sexual- minority stressors, and racial/ethnic-minority stressors predict hazardous drinking in lesbians, and which lesbians are at the highest risk. Findings will have important scientific and public health implications for identifying groups at greatest risk for hazardous drinking and for developing culturally sensitive prevention and intervention strategies, the grant states.
More $2.7M Federal Study: Why Do Lesbians Have Higher 'Risk for Hazardous Drinking'? | CNS News