Research on sexual fluidity, hooking up and straight girls kissing has mainly focused on women living on college campuses: privileged, affluent, white women.īut studies have found that same-gender sexual experiences between straight women are common across all socioeconomic backgrounds. Many young women who identify as straight have had sexual or romantic experiences with other women. In 2008, Katy Perry went platinum singing that she “kissed a girl” and “liked it.” Meanwhile, we’ve seen portrayals of otherwise unlabeled women acting on same-gender desire in a number of popular primetime shows, from “Orphan Black” to “The Good Wife.”
Madonna and Britney Spears famously locked lips in front of millions during the 2003 Video Music Awards, with Scarlett Johansson and Sandra Bullock following suit seven years later at the MTV Movie Awards. “Straight girls kissing” has become something of a curious and controversial cultural phenomenon over the last 15 years.
